A Fresh report appeared in the newspaper today (Times of India, February 29, 2012) regarding the Child Kidnapping/forced foster care case by Norway. The report says that the Norway’s Child welfare Service has now decided to award the care of two Indian children to their uncle allowing him to take them back home probably because of media pressure that includes the earlier blog post. However the matter will be presented to court and the final decision will be that of the court. The newspaper report also said that the Norwegian child service for the first time gave the reason for taking custody of the children. According to them the older child who is now three years old has a psychological deficiency and they found their parents deficient in handling that child’s psychological deficiency. However, there are serious unanswered questions arising from this report:
1. Did the psychological disturbance arise after the child was taken away from the parents or before because a Norwegian court had returned the custody of the boy to the parents earlier. The boy was not returned and instead the authorities had appealed. Why was the solution considered now not considered earlier? Why was the earlier court decision appealed? Why were the parents denied contact after the child was taken away? And why was counseling not considered for the parents? Can the love of parents be replaced? Is not that deprivation the cause for the present psychological disturbance?
What made the Norwegian Social worker decide that a two year old child was psychologically disturbed in a couple of visits? to take him away forcibly, kicking and screaming, away from the loving care of parents with backing of Norwegian system. Was it because he was eating with his hands? A Billion Indians have done it since the beginning of history and will continue to do so in spite of what a young Norwegian girl with a two year diploma in social work says with no children of her own for experience. All infant children scream when snatched from parents. It is not psychological disturbance.
Even if for a moment we assume that the two year old boy had a psychological disturbance why did the Norwegians increase the trauma of the child by isolating him from loving parents instead of providing support to them? That would have been far better and far less costly. And, after depriving the child and parents of each other why did Norway impose the condition that the parents can see the child only once a year. Even in cases where a child and his mother is isolated from a violent father, the courts in all civilised countries provide weekly visits albeit under supervision. Is it too cold and frigid up there in North for the Norwegians to realize this? Do they live too far way to study the practices of the civilised world?
2. If the reason was the psychological disturbance, why was the breast-fed younger sister that was only a few months old taken away too?
3. Is it not the case that the same authorities are doing the same thing with a lot more children of other foreigners in Norway? Do they consider them all psychologically disturbed? Is this a serious and pathological psychological disturbance elsewhere in The Norwegian system? It needs no imagination to realize that the taking away of infants from loving parents is the most cruel, barbaric and inhuman of practices.
These are not Norwegian children and their countrymen and family want them back immediately. They must return the children immediately and adopt practices worthy of humans. The situation is heartbreaking for the children, their parents, grandparents and numerous other humans with a human heart. Come on Norway, have a heart, many in your country cried too when your children were gunned down by a laughing psychologically disturbed Norwegian gunman in July last year. That must have given the Norwegians some familiarity with the pain that loss of children causes. How can they continue with their heartless way?
The terror and trauma of infant children being seperated from thier parents and the ensuing sorrow of the parents is of the deepest kind that can be experienced by a human soul. It must be the most insensitive of human souls that can not appreciate it, something like the soul of the Norwegian gunman who laughingly killed 85 Norwegian children as if enjoying a gleeful video game. It seems the Norwegians wish to perpetuate this sorrow by depriving these children of their parents, and the parents of these children forever. Even now because of immense public and goverment pressure they only wish to consider giving the custody to an uncle and that too after discussing in a court of law after about a month.
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