Barnevarn and "child protection" in Norway. What is life like in Norway. Shocking information

Barnevarn and "child protection" in Norway
November 06, 2012

Source annatubten.livejournal.com - The story of Inga Eikevog, who fled from Norway. Part 3. What is "protection of children's rights". Nov 3, 2012 at 11:29 pm

Guardianship service "Barnevarn", its role in society, as well as in the life and fate of Russian parents and their children. My experience and my observations.
As a result of studying this topic, I came across articles and reviews about the shockingly cruel work of the child custody service in Norway, Barnevarn.

A few months before the departure, a report on this topic was shown in the news of Channel 1. It was about how, because of trifling reasons, or even in the absence of such, the guardianship service takes away children from Russian women who are married to Norwegian citizens or who are divorced from them. The program also talked about Finland, but my attention was drawn to the country to which I was going to soon move with the child. Frightened by this prospect, I demanded an explanation from my husband.

The husband confirmed that such cases regarding immigrants are not uncommon, but they concern only homeless people, alcoholics and drug addicts, including from the local population, who mistreat their children, do not take care of them, or whose children beg for alms, like the children of Romanian or the Somali refugees often seen on the streets of Norway.

According to the spouse, it is obvious that in "Barnevarn" the husbands, offended after the divorce, declared against the Russians for the purpose of revenge. My husband assured me that I have nothing to fear, because we are not going to get divorced. He said that his father has connections with this organization, because. He has worked in education for many years. However, plunging deeper into this topic already in Norway, I became convinced that I had every reason to be afraid of Barnevarn.

Having introduced my husband to the content of these articles, I began to ask him specific questions, and I realized that my husband was hiding the unpleasant truth from me and was in no hurry to acquaint me with it for fear that I would not come to Norway or leave it.

My husband began to give me advice on how to behave so that Barnevarn would not be interested in us, namely, not to walk with the child after 8 pm, despite the fact that in Norway it is safe and daylight hours in the summer last until midnight; when I feed the child in the kitchen, curtain the windows so that the neighbors from the windows of the house opposite do not see this and see something “wrong” in the way I feed the child and declare it to the Barnevarne; do not change the baby's diaper without closing the curtains, because our baby does not like diapers, screams and dodges, and his unwillingness, the neighbors opposite or living through the wall, could regard this as my abuse of him.

I began to be afraid to be in an apartment without lowered blinds, to feed the child at the window, I tried to go for a walk with the child as soon as possible so that his impatient cries would not interest the neighbors.

The husband also shared that a slap on the bottom of a child on the street necessarily entails a complaint from anyone who notices this in Barnevarn and 100% removal of the child from the family. In Norway, this is tantamount to beating children. Any words of parents who are angry with the bad behavior of their child, often taken out of context and transmitted in kindergarten or school by the child himself, are equated with a threat.

The husband told how "Barnevarn" took away the daughter of an African woman who told her "I will kill you" if she does not obey. The fact that the mother said this frivolously and in a fit of anger was not taken into account. In Norway, you can not yell at children and use other methods of education for them, except for those approved by Barnevarn. The list can even be found in courses organized by the guardianship service.

Neighbors from an adjacent apartment filed a complaint against us for keeping the stroller in the common corridor, although the rules signed by all the residents of the house did not prohibit this, and there was more than enough space in the spacious corridor. The behavior of the neighbors after our move with the child, especially after their complaint, changed a lot - they stopped saying hello and behaved emphatically indifferently.

The child was teething, he was often capricious, crying. All this, according to my husband, could be a reason for the neighbors to contact Barnevarne with the suspicion that we are mistreating the child.

According to him, there are cases when the neighbors are dissatisfied with each other or someone wants to take revenge on someone. After all, such a cruel method of revenge is very effective - it takes away from people the most precious thing - their children.

The principle is that first the child is taken away from the parents, and only then they begin to figure out whether the denunciation is fair. An anonymous call, a letter, an appeal to "Barnevarn" from a kindergarten teacher, a school teacher, a nurse from a children's clinic is enough.

I began to study information about the actions of "Barnevarn" on the Internet and found that Norway ranks 2nd in the world in terms of the number of Russians affected by this. Finland comes first. In the category of children born in Norway to immigrant parents, Russia is ahead of everyone.

Total as of January 1, 2010. under the social patronage "Barnevarn" there were over 5,000 children born to parents, one or both of whom were Russians.

From the beginning of 2012 12 Russian families have already turned to the international organization "Russian Mothers" with a cry for help, from whom 17 children have been taken away.

"Barnevarn" is an organization that is not subordinate to any other authority. Her work is not defined by any law. Barnevarne workers make their own decisions. Even the court has no right to challenge the decision of the guardianship service. All custody cases are carefully hidden from the public - under the pretext of possible harm to the child. Everything that comes to light happens either in the process of a scandal, or thanks to the intervention of the human rights activists of the injured party.

And if earlier the reason for the removal of children was physical abuse, now any reasons are used, from "emotional abuse" or its possibility to the most trifling and absurd: too many or too few toys, a sad look from a child, a child looks away in a conversation with adults, the child "somehow not so" looks at the mother, the mother did not give sweets before dinner, etc.

Although even caries in a child can be the cause. Dentists in Norway are very expensive and everyone is taught to clean and care for their teeth from a young age. My husband and his parents urged me to start brushing my child's teeth when the first two first appeared, they scared me that otherwise the child would soon develop caries. So they advise in the clinic, and all the acquaintances of the husband with children also unquestioningly follow this. In this regard, in Norway it is customary to give sweets to children only on weekends. This is how my husband and his parents raised me.

As I already wrote, if a child has a cold, he has a high temperature, in Russia they call a doctor or an ambulance and treat him. In Norway, they are in no hurry to treat a child for a cold, they believe that "it will pass by itself." What is traditional medicine, they simply do not know. Therefore, the desire, in their opinion, to "heal" the child here can also become a reason for applying to "Barnevarn".

The use of child labor (somehow even elementary help around the house) here can also be regarded as a violation of the rights of the child. My husband and his parents were shocked and severely condemned my story that Russian schoolchildren clean the classroom themselves, once a month they participate in the general cleaning at the school, and even in the cleaning of the school territory.

In Norway, it is customary to attend kindergarten from the age of 1 year. This is insisted both in the clinic and in the guardianship authorities. Maternity and parental leave for women in Norway lasts 1 month before childbirth and 12 months after childbirth. At the same time, she is paid 100% of her monthly salary. After 9 months after the birth of the child, the father can also take over the place of the mother within 3 months, also with the preservation of full earnings.

If the father does not have such a desire, the child goes to kindergarten from the age of 9 months.
If a child has not attended kindergarten since the age of one and is brought up at home, then it is recommended to visit an "open kindergarten", where the mother looks after her child herself.
Not attending kindergarten can be a reason for close attention of the guardianship service.
According to my agreement with my husband, even before the birth of the child, I was going to stay at home with my son until he reached that 3-year-old age. The husband knew that in Russia parental leave can be up to 3 years, and did not object.

Norwegian language courses last 3 years before obtaining a certificate of knowledge of the language, and it is almost impossible to get a decent job without knowing Norwegian. According to people who attended free language courses for all visitors, there are no groups uniting people of the same nationality, and teaching is conducted in mixed groups immediately in Norwegian. Such a system of education may seem extremely inefficient. After all, for people who arrived from the countries of Africa and the East, training, due to the unusual alphabet, is given with great difficulty.
After moving to Norway, my husband increasingly began to convince me to send my child to a kindergarten at least from the age of 2 and start attending an "open kindergarten" from the age of 1. The reason he called the speedy socialization of the child.

Leaving no hope of convincing me, the husband gave examples of his friends who successfully changed the regimen of a 7-month-old baby, depriving him of sleep during the day, so that he would get used to not sleeping in kindergarten and sleep better at night, giving parents the opportunity to sleep, and also welcomed the fact that they left their child in kindergarten for several hours a day, training his habit of being without a mother.
In Norwegian kindergartens for children from the age of 3 years, daytime sleep is not provided at all. Until the age of 3, daytime sleep in kindergarten is undesirable!

I was categorically not satisfied with the diet already mentioned above (in the children's menu, hot meals are provided only once a week, and the rest of the time it's just sandwiches, which in some kindergartens parents themselves give to children with them), the fact that children walk in kindergarten in any weather and the almost forced introduction of diapers, even if the child is already toilet trained. My husband also praised kindergartens, where children go hiking almost every day, also in any weather.

I argued my refusal by the fact that attending a kindergarten at such an early age may be associated with the risk of a number of childhood diseases typical for this age, and by the fact that at the age of one, a child does not need early socialization. According to our psychologists, at this age, the company of parents and games with them are quite enough for a child.

But my husband continued to insist, and later said that, despite my objections, my mother-in-law had already contacted the local "open kindergarten" and left an application.

Perhaps this was not only a desire to impose a new way of life on me, but also a desire to protect me from the likely attention of "Barnevarn".
Later, I began to understand that my "Russian traditions" of caring for and raising a child could indeed attract the interest of the kindergarten administration and the guardianship service.

In Norway, people smile a lot and often. This demonstrates a positive attitude and well-being. These are the norms of the Western mentality. The mother's lack of a smile can be interpreted as "depression", followed by the intervention of the guardianship service, because. depression needs medical treatment, and, consequently, the mother is not able to take care of the child. The husband himself said that the medical staff of the children's polyclinic offers the help of a psychologist to young mothers who "look tired" and, therefore, cannot give the child full attention and care. According to the Norwegian mentality, a mother should not be tired, she should rest and get enough sleep at all costs to be in good shape, no matter how difficult the first months after the birth of a child may be. The self-sacrifice of mothers, widespread in Russia, in Norway is savagery, especially after the emancipation of women fighting for their rights, which has acquired a huge scale.

Modern young mothers continue to live almost the same active social life as before pregnancy and childbirth. I recalled an incident during my stay at my husband’s parents’ house, when, when asked by my father-in-law whether I slept well, I answered that the child’s sleep was very restless (my son was teething), he tossed and turned in his bed and I hardly closed my eyes, and the father-in-law remarked: "But he slept, didn't he?"

If the child is different from his peers, then the guardianship service may also intervene, the task of which is to form the child at an early age, which is much easier to do than when he is a teenager. As I already wrote, there are any grounds for a complaint, and anyone can do it - a nurse in a children's clinic, a kindergarten teacher, a teacher, an acquaintance, a neighbor, a work colleague with whom parents inadvertently shared the details of family life, any ill-wisher. Single mothers and mothers with many children attract attention in the first place, because often look tired.

"Barnevarn" calls the parents or makes an unexpected visit home. My husband warned me that if the door was not opened, it could be perceived as resistance. Checks begin at home, in kindergarten, school, guardianship workers place the child under full control in order to identify the shortcomings of care and upbringing on the part of parents. It takes from weeks to several months before those are established. Child welfare services may also require parents to attend special courses to teach parents to better understand their children, or impose "parenting advice". Refusal of advice is perceived as resistance and can also lead to the loss of a child.

Work at Barnevarn is well paid, its employees are very diligent, diligent and meticulous.
The Norwegian Ministry of Family, Childhood and Social Affairs has proposed that the government introduce new criteria for assessing the well-being of children in the country.

Biological parents should no longer have priority in raising their own children. All children born in Norway or brought to it do not belong to their parents, but are the property of the state.
In Norway, the rights of every mother are divided into 2 categories - the right to be called the "biological producer" of her child and the right to live with him. Which doesn't always match. This was extremely contrary to my ideas about motherhood and my Russian mentality.

The Ministry recognizes that the family of origin is the best place for any person, but (quoted from the Norwegian edition) "if the relationship between parents and children is an obstacle to the development of the child, this should be more important than the biological principle." The Kingdom of Norway no longer exists, because how else can the state, acting "in the interests" of children, be informed.
Such measures did not cause a warm response among the Norwegian population. My husband showed me a website dedicated to stories of unfair removal of children from their biological parents by the Barnevarne organization.

The site contains cries for help and stories of a crippled childhood.

I began to ask my husband how all this could be true.

My husband's behavior did not cheer me up, but, on the contrary, frightened me. My husband repeated to me that "this will not happen to us."

When I asked if he gave me any guarantees, he replied that he did not, but his father had connections in Barnevarn (his father-in-law held a high position in education, and his mother-in-law worked in a kindergarten for 20 years). Subsequently, the presence of these connections began to cause me concern.

I shared with my husband the information I found, with a link to the Norwegian police website, that in Norway there are 40,000 pedophiles out of a total population of 4.5 million people. Judging by the reaction of her husband, this was not news to him. My question obviously took him by surprise.

I remembered the appointment with the pediatric nurse and her advice to see a psychologist, and asked my husband if this could be a reason for the close attention of the guardianship service to our family. After all, this is how most of these cases began. Ordinary observance of hygiene in childcare, adopted in Russia, could be regarded as madness. I was sorry that in Norway there is no such program on TV (like we have “Live Healthy” with Elena Malysheva, etc.), where hygiene standards are designed to help maintain the health of the population.

As a result of a conversation with my husband, I was never able to enlist either his moral support or encouraging information.

The husband shared interesting facts.
Among those waiting are not only childless couples. Often, those who wish to improve their well-being turn to the guardianship service. The guardian, together with the child, receives in addition an attractive allowance, which is paid along with the salary, and significant amounts for the needs of the child - clothing and food. Many newly-made guardians quit their jobs, because you can not work in Norway with this money. In addition, the guardian is exempt from paying many taxes, including income tax, which in Norway reaches 50%.

I heard stories from my husband that foster care is becoming propaganda. - in shopping centers you can find posters depicting children calling for "take them for yourself."

In those days, a scandal erupted on Norwegian TV and in the press around an Indian couple in the Norwegian city of Stavanger, from whom Barnevarn seized 2 children, among whom was a 4-month-old baby. My husband regularly told me news related to this story. He also spoke about the reasons for the removal of children presented in the Norwegian media - the woman was much younger than her husband, married not for love, suffered from idleness and fed her son only yogurt and rice, and was generally presented as a dark person from a disadvantaged, in their opinion, India where this couple went to live in Norway.

In the Russian media, this story was also not ignored, only there was more information: both Indian parents who suffered from Barnevarn were geologists, high-class specialists who worked in Norway under a contract. The wife and mother had an MBA degree. Both came from noble families, and the reasons described for the removal of children were completely absurd: the mother fed her newborn daughter on demand, and not by the hour; changed diapers on the bed, not on the changing table; children slept with their parents in the same bed; the three-year-old son did not look happy when he got to kindergarten, but sat sadly away from other children; the mother fed the children with her hand, not with a spoon. This list aroused bewilderment in me, because. having lived in Norway for some time and having become acquainted with the lifestyle of local Norwegians, as well as from the stories of my husband, I knew that Norwegians do all of the above, and as for hand-feeding, my mother-in-law insisted on this and often practiced with our child and husband.

In the eyes of the Norwegians, Russia is an extremely criminal and dysfunctional country, in Russia there is a lack of freedoms, democracy and justice. The words "crime", "corruption", "mafia", "violation of human rights" can most often be found in the conversation of Norwegians about Russia. In this spirit, the image of Russia is presented in the Norwegian media.
Norwegians believe that Russians live below the poverty line. My husband's colleagues were surprised by the beautiful and high-quality clothes I gave him, and they said that the facts that I give him such gifts and have the opportunity to travel abroad speak of my belonging to the Russian mafia. Husband's friends believe that Russians stand in long queues for rationed bread. The husband was amazed by the abundance and quality of Russian products and took photos in a hypermarket, lamenting that they were deprived of such a choice in Norway, where the scarcity of the range of products is the result of a monopoly.

My father-in-law and my husband often emphasized Russia's troubles, reminding me of the conditions in which Russian pensioners live and how high pensions are in Norway. During his visits to Moscow, the husband often took pictures of ill-dressed older Russian women trading near the metro or begging, and shared them on the Internet. Over time, I began to suspect that this was a form of ridicule. When I reproached him, he proudly said that his mother is a pensioner, but in Norway she does not need to work in retirement. He also took photographs of car parks on sidewalks and other prohibited areas.

At the same time, the husband was often perplexed that the retirement age of Russian men is higher than that of women.
My attempts to explain that men and women are physically unequal and given different opportunities by nature were misunderstood. The retirement age in Norway is 67 for both sexes. Until recently, Norwegian citizens worked until the age of 62-64. The husband's parents managed to fall under the reform, which provided them with a high pension. According to her husband, potential pensioners of the younger generation are forced to work until the age of 67, and then their pension will no longer be so high. The healthy lifestyle of Norwegians is driven by the desire to live longer in order to have time to enjoy the benefits of retirement.

Therefore, Norway is interested in population growth and future taxpayers. Every resident is important to her, including children brought from abroad as a result of mixed marriages and immigration.

In Norway, foreign marriages are encouraged, which are readily accepted by local men, who are often unable to start a family in their homeland with independent and freedom-loving local women who do not seek to start a family and have children. And since If the population arriving from other countries has difficulty learning the difficult Norwegian language, then this contingent is doomed to a non-prestigious and low-paid job.
The bulk of foreign women who marry Norwegians consists of women from Thailand, the Philippines and Russia. And if the former are attractive with their humility, quiet disposition and interest in gaining a foothold in economically prosperous Norway, then Russian women are attracted by the priority of the family, motherhood and respect for their husband, preserved in their minds, as well as European appearance, which will contribute to assimilation and early adaptation in local society.

November 25, a well-known human rights activist from Norway Marius Reikeros gave a press conference in Tallinn and gave a lecture. Topic: numerous violations of the rights of children and parents and the arbitrariness of social services in his country.

As the NGO coordinator told BaltNews.ee, “ Estonian parents” Anastasia Raya, a lecture by a Norwegian human rights activist, made an indelible impression on the audience: “I knew all the materials in advance, but it was interesting even for me to listen. We will distribute the recording in Russian, then you will see for yourself what horrific things are happening.” The report contained a lot of critical information about the activities of the social service " barnevarne» (Barnevernet) to help and support children and adolescents in Norway.

Anastasia Raya agreed, at the request of BaltNews.ee, to cite the most shocking facts from the report, noting that each of them has a corresponding evidence base.

1. By decision of the UN, Norway has a lowered group on human rights from A to B. Norway is officially recognized as an unreliable country in the field of observance of human rights and the rights of parents to raise their own children. The downgrade took place in 2012.

2. Children receive drugs, including heroin, in social institutions "Barnevarn". Drugs and psychotropic drugs are used to calm children. As a result, half of the children in such institutions get addicted to drugs and various medications. A case of the death of a teenager in Barnevarn institutions from an overdose of the drug Gammahydroxybutyrate (GHB), the so-called "liquid ecstasy", was also recorded.

3. Barnevarn hires former criminals and people with mental illness. As a result, children are beaten and raped in social institutions. Lock up the children in solitude and isolate them from any society as punishment for weeks. The death rate of "rescued" (taken away from parents) children is 40 times higher than normal childhood mortality in Norway. The official report admits that too much physical force is used against children in care and that they are subjected to constant psychological pressure.

4. The biological principle - the principle of kinship by blood - has been removed from Norwegian legislation. Now, when making decisions about a child, only that family and those circumstances that meet the abstract “interests of the child” matter. For the sake of such an interest, even the forcible removal of a child from his parents against his will can be justified. As a result, in Norway you cannot take a kitten away from a cat before the age of three months, but you can take the child away from the parents right at the maternity hospital for reasons that are scientifically unfounded (for example, “possible emotional risk in the future”).

5. Mass murderer and terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed more than 70 people, can see his family regularly. And dozens of parents whose own children were taken away from them cannot meet with their children for years, they are given to foster families and even change their names.

6. Dozens of countries whose citizens have suffered from the actions of social workers know firsthand about the terrible practice of social services "Barnevarn". Parents living in the country on a temporary basis have their children taken away forever, and then the parents are deported under any pretext. If we are talking about children selected from families of foreigners, then in the new foster families and in the help centers they are allowed to speak only Norwegian. Official apologies to their peoples for the arbitrariness of their own social services a la Norway have already been expressed by the Prime Minister of Australia and the Finnish Minister of Health. Due to the decisions of Barnevarn, Norway has spoiled international relations with Brazil, the Czech Republic and Sweden and other countries. But no changes are taking place.

7. The state system in Norway encourages the arbitrariness of Barnevarn officials, and parents have practically no rights to protect themselves from the actions of such officials. The decisions about children that Barnevarn needs are made by child psychologists, who can lose their jobs if they write reports that are not suitable for social services. At the same time, Norway allocates tens of millions of Norwegian kroner for the implementation and promotion of its juvenile system in Eastern Europe, primarily in the Baltics. Estonia is sponsored by Norway to harmonize its own legislation with Norwegian in surveys of social guardianship of children and adolescents.

8. Of the 1,459,029 children living in Norway (between the ages of 0 and 22, since assistance is provided until the age of 23), 53,150 children and adolescents were monitored by Barnevarn during the year. Including 38 seized from Estonian families.

9. "Barnevarn" is the top of the pyramid for making money on seized children and teenagers. In 2015, the seven main adoption companies earned 65 million euros. Child care companies are joint stock companies and listed on the London Stock Exchange for profit.

10. In all the years of the existence of Barnevarn, not a single official has been held responsible for the death of a child. At the moment, the European Court of Human Rights has started investigating 9 cases at once in the Norwegian child protection system. This has been sought by Norwegian human rights activists for many years, and the collection of information lasted five years.

As reported by BaltNews.ee Anastasia Raya, the organizers of the visit to Tallinn of a Norwegian human rights activist Marius Reikeros I have a question for Estonian officials: why didn't employees of the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Union for the Protection of Children, the Consul of Norway come to the meeting with the most informed expert about the problems of juvenile justice in Norway? The meeting itself was held in an open mode and it was possible to ask any question. “Why is none of them responding to our inquiries and questions? Are the facts presented not worthy of attention?!” - NGO activists ask questions Estonian parents».

Original taken from ochanka to Norway. Barnevernet. Our guardianship authorities never dreamed of ...

The juvenile justice body, Barnevernet, is doing terrible things in the country.
Statistics show -
Between 1990 and 2002, 150 children and over a thousand parents took their own lives because of barnevernet.
For such a small country like Norway, the numbers are very large.

This organization is completely out of control. It makes its own laws and rights. Built on" above the police."
There is nowhere to appeal against the actions of this organization, they do not even have a centralized administration.
They have simple anonymous letters as a sufficient basis for starting cases against the family.
It would still be fine if, after a full examination of the circumstances of the cases of a family suspected of trouble, and the non-confirmation of far-fetched accusations on the basis of such anonymous letters, the cases were closed.

However, in practice, no one ever an open case against a child is not closed until the child reaches the age of majority,
even despite the emerging contradiction with the beautifully composed Barnevernslov law.
Only investigations are closed.
Often, parents are not even given the right to know why cases are being kept open.

1. the mother of a classmate of my child died, not surviving the fact that Barnevernet deprived her of parental rights
(within six months after the incident).
2. The case against my child was not even opened on the basis of any, God forbid, violence or other trouble in the family: it was enough to accuse allegedly of frequent visits
of our house “luxus beats and luxury motorcycles”, in the frequent absence of a house and isolation in relation to neighbors.
And also the case will not be closed until he reaches the age of majority, even despite the fact that, including from school,
The MOST flattering reviews, the child passed 6 Norwegian classes as an external student in 4 years from scratch,
attends all possible sports / music sections, is always well-groomed, fed and friendly.

Under such circumstances, with filed cases in schools, this organization is given
orders to keep an eye on the children involved in the case...
Today my child is very lucky with teachers. But with the transition to a new school, we do not know what to prepare for. Probably, it is not necessary to explain how unpleasant and fraught this is with the possible dishonesty / malevolence of teachers.

It seems that children in Norway do not belong to their parents, but to this organization!
They alone decide what is good for your child and what is bad.
It is they who decide whether you are eligible to be the parent of a child or whether your children will be better off with new parents.
Your agreement or disagreement in resolving this issue does not play any role!
Moreover, this organization often employs people who not only do not have a little bit of education,
but also their own children!
It would be a big mistake to think that the parents themselves give grounds for an open case to one degree or another.
Think about it: cases are opened on the basis of simple anonymous letters of outright ill-wishers.
And they are NEVER closed - until the child reaches the age of majority.
Non-confirmation of far-fetched accusations is NOT a reason to close the case in practice.

From the forum:
"My child and I were abroad for 7 months, we missed a visit to helsestasjon and a doctor, which we notified them by phone. The doctor wrote to bekymrinsmelding in barnevernet, which decided to investigate this issue. We were already interviewed there, now they scheduled a visit home in a month and sent out requests to kindergarten and helsestasjon. We don’t know how to behave and what to do. Information on the Internet is of little comfort, children are taken to orphanages or foster families."

From the news:
A photo of the Russian mother Svetlana Tarannikova, who carried a prayer for the abolition of the forced adoption of a Russian daughter at the feet of the State Minister of Norway, was published by all of Russia on the day of the explosion in Oslo.
Today, the northern kingdom announced the verdict on her daughter, four-year-old Russian citizen Anna Sophia Tarannikova, to give up for adoption to a foreign pure-blooded Norwegian family ... The cry of a Russian mother drowned in the heartlessness of the Nords. But who knows about it in Russia?

A letter from a Ukrainian woman living in Norway about Barnevernet.
As our former compatriot says, it is very surprising that in Norway
children from an early age learn to complain about each other to various authorities.
For example, two best friends are sitting in a lesson, one of them is cheating.
The second approaches the teacher and says that his neighbor is cheating.
And then they, as if nothing had happened, go together to drink coffee at recess.

Admit it, it looks wild! But, as they say, they don’t go to a strange monastery with their charter.

But if there is snitching, that is, an organization in which you can come and snitch.
In Norway, this is barnevernet, a kind of child protection society that actively uses tips from anonymous people in its work.

Barnevernet is a structure that should help parents in need of advice.
But such help is not always needed. According to our reader, the constant attention of the employees of this organization has to be brushed aside, like an annoying fly.
The reason for the proceedings may be the tired look of the mother,
the sad look of a baby or an incomplete family.
With this approach, many parents in our country could be deprived of a child - a considerable number of Ukrainians look at life without much enthusiasm.

Also, let's say, Norwegians are indignant help the younger generation housework:
“What, this is exploitation of children!”
You can "suffer" because of the candy. As Larisa said, their V In Norway, it is customary to give only on weekends. Neighbors, school, kindergarten can file a complaint with the organization that
that parents spoil their son or daughter's health and teeth.

In Norway, most parents of their children are not treated for a cold, they wave their hands, they say, it will pass by itself. AND if you call an ambulance for a child with a high temperature, then they will look askance at you.

It's bad business if barnevernet employees are interested in you. Larisa writes that this organization has broad powers and can take children from "problem" families and transfer them to foster families.

Here they are, you think! And maybe you will be right.
Somehow it is not customary for us to pay attention to the tired look of parents.
Here the Ukrainian authorities would have had enough strength to cope with the families of alcoholics and drug addicts and take their children away from them.

Dissimilarity of cultures - the cause of the conflict?

According to our reader, public policy in Norway aims to
to make people the same.

For children, this means that all young Norwegians are supposed to go to kindergarten from the age of one.
They must be socially adapted (i.e. not shy) and well (according to the relevant rules) brought up.
And if the child is shy or hyperactive, that is, different from others,
he falls under the close attention of the employees of the children's organization.

In the case of Larisa, the reason for the proceedings was the difference in cultures of different countries.
The woman simply didn't smile as much as the Norwegians did, and it was noticed.
And this was certainly reported where necessary.

“I went to an open kindergarten (an institution where mothers go with their children, and each mother looks after her child herself) with her son and was pregnant,” a young woman tells her story.

One fine day, the parent was notified that a controlling organization was interested in her family. The reason: Larisa's tired appearance and the fact that her son Martin does not look into the eyes of adults when they talk to him.
From that day on, the life of their family, one might say, began surveillance.

The logic behind the children being monitored by employees is that it is easier to shape a small child than a teenager who is already spoiled. But what does "spoiled child" mean? Where are the criteria by which they determine which child is good and which is bad?

Larisa and her Norwegian husband had to invite a lawyer who advised them to obey and calmly accept any “help” from barnevernet. Such humility was appreciated and left behind.

Another IDP, Oksana, experienced the joys of dealing with controlling organizations.
The Norwegian disliked her in kindergarten and snitched where necessary that her son was poorly brought up.
Upon learning that she was threatened with proceedings, Oksana quickly packed her things and left.

Another "victim" had a miscarriage after she was told that they wanted to take
her very shy daughter.

The Russian Bulvar, a newspaper for Russian-speaking residents of Norway, published an article about Elena Zaitseva (name changed) under the heading “I will not give my children to anyone.”
Elena's story is as follows: according to the decision of the barnevernet organization, two of her children were placed in an orphanage.

Parents are charged on the following counts: 9-year-old Katya is mortally afraid,
that her mother would send her to live in Russia; the mother does not understand the needs of the children;
improperly cares for them (dresses inappropriately for the weather and feeds poorly);
makes them learn the alphabet from the age of three, thus depriving them of their childhood;
makes older children do a lot of housework,
taking care of the younger ones, which leaves them no time to do their homework.
The allegations are backed up by written statements from class teachers and another witness who wished to remain anonymous.
There is also evidence of a Russian language teacher in the case. The injured mother believes that the case against her and the children is fabricated from the first to the last word.
“This is the payment for my adherence to principles and excessive concern for children. Unfortunately, the use of anonymous applicants in the work of a children's organization makes it possible to turn a really important and necessary organization into a tool for settling personal scores,” Elena believes.

According to her, even if the parents are not alcoholics or drug addicts,
but only, for example, are limited in funds or have ill-wishers, then the slightest reason:
failure to appear with the child to the doctor, being late for school, a sandwich forgotten at home - may be the basis,
to terminate their parental rights.

« It is especially difficult for immigrants. The play on words in translation, the difference in traditions and approaches in raising children, the initial distrust of parents, inexperience in bureaucratic business management - all this plays against moms and dads, ”says Elena sadly.
The court rejected the claims brought by Zaitseva. The case, stretched over 80 pages, burst like a soap bubble.

And here is another case. On a website for Russian-speaking Norwegians, a former citizen of Eastern Europe told how a neighbor complained to a controlling organization that a seven-year-old girl was allegedly being used as a housekeeper. This lady came to visit, drank tea, smiled sweetly and chirped about this and that.
But at the same time, she did not forget to scan everything and everyone for violations. And as a result, I filed a complaint.
I had to hire a lawyer and tell the workers of the children's organization that the girl from a binational family,
in which, by agreement of the parents, education is carried out according to Russian traditions.
In accordance with which a child from the age of 7 works within the house to the best of his ability!

Tell me, where can I snitch?

After some anonymous person in a letter or verbally complains about a neighbor,
Child Protective Services employees call the parents for a meeting.
"Violators" should drop everything and come immediately. And if they don't,
they are taken by the police from their homes or workplaces.

Imagine a picture: dejectedly, through the whole office, a person hobbles, who yesterday too emotionally “raised” a child! Actually, I'm starting to like it.
If only we had a little more attention. At least in preventive doses ...

Further, after the meeting and your ardent assurances that everything is fine, they begin to make inquiries about you. Simply put, they start a case against parents: they interview neighbors, teachers, doctors, look after children at school or kindergarten.
zealous employees come home and watch what happens in the family.
They can sit as long as they like, and you have no right to say anything to them.

If moms and dads are in the area of ​​attention of barnevernet, then they will not stand on ceremony with them.
Employees of the children's organization do not have to warn about the arrival.
Overseers may suddenly knock on the door, and not letting them in means resisting the authorities.
This will be seen as another reason to take the child away from the family.

P.S.: the activity of such an organization is not surprising. The average age of women who decide to have a baby in Norway is 38! years. Previously, it was simply not accepted. Where can they get children from when even the procedure is already in vitro fertilization is unable to help often? The children of Ukrainians and Russians are fair, blue-eyed, they will completely pass for their own ...

The State Statistics Committee of Norway published on its official website information that the state annually allocates 8.8 billion crowns (44 billion rubles, or about 1 billion euros) for the maintenance of punishers from Barnevarn. The money goes primarily to encourage the forced separation of emigrant families and the alienation of parents from their own children, informs the press service of the Russian Mothers MOU.

Statistics on the foreign origin of children who fell under the forced guardianship of the punitive social patronage of Norway is given by the local Goskomstat once every five years. Norway openly published the latest data on countries of origin of prisoners as of January 1, 2010. On this day, 5176 Russian children were in the dungeons of Barnevarn.

Goskomstat notes that "Russian children" represent one of the largest groups in Barnevarne. At the same time, the number of Barnevarn's wards, who were born in Russia and were "imported" by their parents to Norway, is among the four leaders among all nationalities. But among the selected children born in Norway, "Russian children" are the absolute leaders and occupy the highest line in all tables about children who have become "clients" of the Norwegian children's police Barnevarn.

People are afraid of everything, afraid to go to bed, afraid to go to work, afraid to lose their children. At any time of the day or night, the children's police "Barnevarn" can descend on you and destroy your family forever and take your children away forever. This practice is widespread on an all-European scale of child hunting.

In Norway, the so-called socialists are trying to put into practice the idea that everyone should be the same. All children must go to kindergarten from the age of one, it is forbidden to sleep in kindergarten from the age of 3, and up to 3 years - sleeping in the garden is undesirable. In a Norwegian kindergarten, babies and children are fed once a week with a warm meal. Russian mothers are indignant and ask to increase the distribution of food to children in kindergartens up to two times a week. Norwegian educators, instead of food, take away children from Russian mothers who are dissatisfied with the regime. If the child is different from others, stands out from the crowd (even if shy, or restless), Barnevern is taken to work.

Socialists claim that it is easier to shape a small child than a teenager who is already spoiled. Therefore, the goal of Barnevarn is to take the child away from Russian mothers as early as possible, best of all - right on the day of birth or even at the time of birth. 1/5 of all children in Norway are currently under the jurisdiction of the state - that is, these are Barnevarn clients, juvenile clients. They are separated from their biological parents and live in juvenile institutions. Some call them foster families and orphanages, others - family-type juvenile prisons.

The Norwegian juvenile police Barnevarn pride themselves on seizing 1.5 children per hour from good parents in Norway.

2. The Norwegian guardianship service took the child from Russian citizen Svetlana Tarannikova on the second day after birth

The Norwegian guardianship service took the child from Russian citizen Svetlana Tarannikova on the second day after birth. As it turned out later, the foster mother had been "in line" for the baby for two years and she was promised Svetlana's child. Prior to that, two older sons had already been taken from the Russian woman.

Russian mothers become donors for Norwegian families who receive a lot of money for the adoption of migrant children. Such adaptation in Norwegian became a kind of state policy.

In 2003, Svetlana Tarannikova, a resident of Murmansk, married a Norwegian citizen, having moved to this country with her six-year-old son. But very soon it became clear that this marriage had no future. The husband turned out to be an alcoholic, who also drove large quantities of moonshine in the basement of his own house. As Svetlana says, she was afraid of the explosion of this meter apparatus and reported her husband to the police.

But it turned out that in Norway there is an organization that is much more powerful than the police - this is the local child protection service, or barnevarn, as it is called in Norwegian. In retaliation, the husband turned to this service, demanding that her son be taken away from Svetlana. As he later admitted, it is a common practice to take revenge on people by reporting them to the barn. Service specialists began to visit the woman regularly, write reports about her behavior, threatening to take the child away. Frightened by these threats, Svetlana chose to return to her husband.

She suddenly became pregnant. But the husband was categorically against this child. Realizing that Svetlana was not going to get rid of him, he once again declared her to the barn, this time accusing the woman of alcoholism. “The next day, barnevarn took her eldest son from school and took her to a secret address. They didn’t give me any news about my son for about three months - they just didn’t pick up the phone. And I was sent for examination to a special clinic. Tests showed the absence of alcohol.

But the staff also recommended an abortion, because they, knowing the barnevarn system, feared for the health of the mother and child," says Svetlana. Since the woman refused an abortion, she was placed in a special institution where the barnevarn sends "problem" mothers. no possibility - otherwise the child is taken away immediately after birth.In addition, Svetlana was promised to return her eldest son.

“But when I arrived, I realized that I was placed in this institution only to pick up the child. Everyone there was looking for real or unreal reasons for this. No matter what I did, everything was used against me,” says Svetlana.

One example explains everything. Once a woman went for a walk with her eldest son and his 12-year-old friend. The next day, employees of the institution wrote in a report that she was "using her son to attract young fans." What a twisted mind you need to have to write something like this about a 30-year-old woman who is in the last stages of pregnancy. Reports of this kind were fabricated every day.

Not surprisingly, most of the women who entered this institution had their children eventually taken away. Well, mothers who lost their nerve after losing a child were sent for treatment to a psychiatric clinic.

The birth was difficult, but a week later Svetlana was ordered to get up and go skiing in the mountains. Her refusal, she was told, "would cause concern." As Svetlana says, "from their point of view, it appeared that a true Norwegian mother immediately after giving birth gets up on skis and goes to the mountains. If she does not go, then she is not able to raise a child."

In the end, the woman had a nervous breakdown, and she made a fatal mistake - she signed an agreement with barnevarn that she would give them children while she would restore her health. The agreement was drawn up as a temporary one, but it quickly became clear that no one was going to return her children. Some time later, Svetlana was announced that her two sons were being given to a lesbian family.

One can imagine the reaction of a woman brought up in traditional values ​​- she was categorically against it. As it turned out later, this refusal was also used against her: is it possible to entrust children to a woman who has a negative attitude towards homosexuals? But what about tolerance and political correctness?

As a result, Svetlana was allowed to see the children only four times a year. To protect her maternal rights, she hired a lawyer. And he gave her unexpected advice - to give birth to another child, and then, it seems, there will be a chance to return older children. But, as it turned out, the fate of the third child had already been decided by the Norwegian guardianship service.

On the second day after the birth, the newborn girl was taken away from her mother - it later turned out that she had already been "booked" by one foster family, which had been in line for the baby for two years.

There is nothing surprising in the existence of such queues. Being foster parents in Norway is very profitable: for each child, the state pays from 300 to 500 thousand crowns per year (1.5-2.5 million rubles), plus 10 thousand crowns per month for everyday expenses. How much does a child need? It is clear that the main part of these amounts goes to the family income, which, moreover, is not subject to any tax at all. So, thanks to foster children, such a family becomes much more prosperous and can afford unplanned expenses.

But it would seem, what is the point for the state to take away children from their natural parents, who are completely law-abiding citizens and do not lead an asocial lifestyle, and then pay such big money to foster families? There is a meaning - and a very significant one. After all, children are taken away not only from Russian citizens. We have already told about a similar story with a Polish family who even had to hire a detective to steal their daughter from a foster family and bring her home.

In Norway, there is also an organization for the women of Somalia, which was created a few years ago by one of the mothers, who also lost her child with the light hand of barnevard employees. The mothers in this organization are fighting together to get their own children back. It seems that the Norwegian state has come up with an original way of "adaptation" of migrants. It was possible to follow the path of France, Germany, Great Britain and try to "integrate" adults into the existing state system. However, as sociological experience shows, this method has not been particularly successful in the above countries - migrants, even in the second and third generations, prefer to live within the framework of their compatriots, according to their cultural traditions.

The Norwegian authorities, on the other hand, invented a much more effective method - to take the child away from the biological parents and transfer it to the family of true Norwegians, thus eliminating the problem of adaptation and assimilation of foreign children by force. That is why the local guardianship service barnevarn makes a decision on the removal of children without waiting for a court order. This service has been given some incredible powers, and its employees are free to decide who is worthy of being a mother and who is not. Without the state "order" this would be simply impossible. At the same time, the requirements for adoptive parents are much softer than for relatives.

Irina Bergset, whose dramatic story Pravda.Ru has repeatedly told about, recently received her first meeting with her sons in two months. She was horrified to find a stitched wound on the forehead of her youngest son, an injured leg joint in her older son. On her complaint, she was told that there was nothing to worry about - everything was fine. The main thing is done - the children are transferred to a foster family, and there their problems no longer concern anyone.

But one more difficult question remains - the position of the Russian state. After all, most of these children were citizens of Russia. And after they are transferred to foster families, the children get a new passport and even change their names. The daughter of Svetlana Tarannikova is now being prepared for this kind of adaptation in order to completely cut off all ties with her own mother. There can be no talk of any upbringing, taking into account the native culture and language.

Does the Russian state really care to such an extent what happens to its young citizens in Norway, where they are forcibly made into Norwegians?

3. Norway: Russians are more likely to seize children

Norway has officially recognized that half of all children removed from families are children of emigrants who came to the country with their parents. Russia ranks fourth in this sad rating. But among those who were already born on the territory of Norway and were selected by local guardianship, most of all there were children whose one of the parents was a native of Russia.

Last Wednesday, several Russian women came to the Norwegian parliament in Oslo to hold a rally authorized by the authorities. Women silently stood at the walls of parliament with posters - "My children need me - my own mother." For the first time official figures were heard in the story about the picket on local television.

More than half of all children seized in Norway come from immigrant families. The first lines of the "top list" are occupied by people from Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Russia. The Minister for Family Affairs and Child Protection acknowledged that these numbers are constantly growing. In 2007, the total number of children taken away from their biological parents was 7,709, in 2010 - 8,073, and in 2011 - 8,485. But according to local human rights activists, the real numbers could be several times higher.

For the children of immigrants from Russia, the situation is known so far only for the period of January 1, 2010 (the local committee on statistics summarizes it every five years). At that time, 5176 Russian children were in the guardianship system. The Norwegian State Statistics Committee notes that "Russian children" represent one of the largest groups among those seized from their parents. Among those who came to Norway with their parents, Russians are fourth in terms of "popularity" with social services. But among those who were already born on the territory of Norway, the most children are taken away from whom one of the parents (usually the mother) is Russian.

True, the Norwegian Minister for Children himself does not see anything special in these statistics. And when asked to comment on the rally of mothers whose children were taken away, he said that this only indicates that there is democracy in Norway, and immigrant parents are not prohibited from organizing pickets. Yes, the majority of parents who have lost their children due to state kidnapping really have only one right left - to go to silent pickets with candles and posters.

Nothing can be proven in court. Simply because the claims that the local child protection service (Barnevarn) makes against foreign mothers do not fit in the head of an ordinary sane person.

Pravda.Ru told the story of Inga Eikevog, who lived with her husband in Norway for a month and a half with her child. Her words are a warning, what you should be prepared for. "My husband forbade me to walk with the child after 8 pm, although it was very light and completely safe. An explanation - this will attract the attention of Barnevarn. He also ordered me to curtain the windows so that the neighbors from the windows of the house opposite they did not see anything "wrong" in the way I feed the child and did not declare to Barnevarn. Do not change the diaper to the child without closing the curtains, as our baby does not like diapers, screams and dodges and his unwillingness to neighbors opposite or living through the wall could be regarded as my violence against him. I became afraid to be in an apartment without the blinds down, feed the child by the window, tried to go for a walk with the child as soon as possible so that his impatient cries would not interest the neighbors, "recalls Inga.

4. How Norway takes away children from visiting foreigners

1 (232x184, 18Kb) In principle, Indian culture is not capable of giving a child a happy childhood. This is the conclusion reached by the employees of the Norwegian social services for children, and therefore they decided to save two little Indian citizens from the prospect of returning to their homeland with their parents - highly qualified specialists who worked in Norway under a contract.

And the shock of the Indian society, the problems of the Norwegian business in India, the rivers of children's and parental tears - an insignificant price for representatives of the state machine, launched to build children's happiness in a single country. When parents drag their sleepy children to kindergartens in the morning, the corridors of these institutions are sure to resound with a roar. As a rule, for every dozen young Russian citizens there is at least one supporter of active methods of protest against early initiation into official discipline.

Russian nannies and educators know that almost every second child begins integration into society with a hunger strike and many hours of sit-in in the corner of the group, with the refusal of any negotiations before presenting their mother. In our kindergartens, the staff takes this behavior for granted. Perhaps this is precisely the anarchism of the Russian soul.

Not so in Norway, where much more attentive people take care of children. In a country where the rights of the child are protected by special legislation and a powerful bureaucratic machine, no three-year-old toddler should sit sadly away from the playing group of the kindergarten, with his forehead against the wall or floor. The child is obliged to be happy - and he will be, even if for this it is necessary to separate him from mom and dad forever. Do not cry, baby: the state knows better what you need.

It was in this story last spring that Indian citizen Abigyan Bhattacharya got involved for two and a half years, who lived with his parents and a four-month-old nursing sister in the Norwegian city of Stavanger. His separation from the team in the kindergarten was regarded as a sign of obvious trouble. And for every signal of this kind, the Norwegian social service for children must respond immediately.

The family of Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya was placed under the supervision prescribed by law. During the week, social workers visited the suspicious Indian family, observing her life. These were ethnographic observations based on qualitative material.

The surname Bhattacharya indicates belonging to the Brahmin caste (translated as "knowing the Vedic rituals"). No less noble is the maiden name of Sagariki - Chakraborty. But despite their noble background, Halliburton's senior geologist and his MBA-educated wife have not been able to live up to the high standards of Norwegian society.

To their dismay, social workers discovered that Indian parents took babies to bed, and the son even slept with his father in the same bed (one can imagine what associations arose in the minds of Norwegians deprived of oriental temperament). Sagarik's mother shocked social workers by feeding her eldest son not from a spoon, but simply from her hand. And the youngest daughter was applied to her breast not by the clock, but by the first squeak.

It was these issues of guardianship that Sagarika remembered later, trying to explain to reporters what exactly happened during these hours such that the social authorities of Norway came to the conclusion that the Bhattacharya family was completely incapable of raising their children. True, much later, the head of the Norwegian social services for children, Gunnar Thoresen, denied that it was these habits of family life that caused such a tough decision. He officially refused to comment on the real motives. Not out of personal impudence, of course, but solely for the sake of observing the rule of law, which requires delicate silence from the ministers of childhood.

This is one of the main features of the child care system built in Norway. The Social Services for Children and Family Courts, like the Holy Inquisition once, are not subject to the profane judgment of the public. This is explained, of course, by protecting the interests of the children themselves. You never know what nightmarish details may come to the surface and affect the future of children? The public is left to believe in the word: if the guardianship decided that the horror took place, then it is so.

In the case of the Bhattacharya family, the Stavanger children's advocates were 100% sure they were right.

Overcoming the criminal indifference of the judicial system, they made every effort to save the unfortunate crumbs. When the family court of first instance reversed the decision to remove the children, social workers still did not return them to their parents, but filed an appeal. And the city family court of Stavanger accepted their arguments, ruling: to send the children to Norwegian foster families until they come of age. Parents were allowed to visit them three times a year, while the court allowed no more than one hour for each visit. More children were separated from each other. Apparently, so that the native language does not remind of an unhappy Indian childhood.

Despite the confidentiality, the press still got hold of the guardianship argument presented to the court. It turned out that the list of unacceptable mistakes of a young family was very extensive. The eldest child not only did not have his own crib, but the clothes on him were not exactly his size, and he played with toys that were not for his age. However, his parents also gave him little space for games.

Little Aishwarya was also in danger: her mother, holding her in her arms, made "sudden movements." Although some of the irresponsible couple's crimes - like changing diapers on the bed rather than on a special table - were not considered significant by the trial court, the children's advocates did not dwell on individual episodes. In their opinion, the whole situation was indicative of "serious doubts" about the ability of parents to take care of children.

In particular, social workers were concerned about the "inability of the mother to meet the emotional needs of the child." After all, when she was breastfeeding her daughter, she did not press her to her arms, as European women usually do, but held her on her knees. In general, Sagarika seemed to the staff of the guardianship to be somehow alarmed and tired - clearly prone to depression. After all, otherwise why would she worry, being in the center of the caring attention of the social service?

Thus, the court was absolutely right in deciding to permanently select Abighyan and Aishwarya. The court acted in full compliance with the Norwegian Children's Welfare Act, the court acted and was guided solely by the interests of little Indians. In the foster family, Abigyan was guaranteed a separate bed, without any suspicious fathers at his side, as well as a high chair and cutlery, which his parents had deprived him of. And Aishwarya - a bottle of milk and a changing table.

The behavior of the Norwegian social workers seems insane, but in fact they acted in full compliance with the aforementioned law. Article 3-1, concerning child welfare, clearly states: “Child Protective Services is responsible for identifying, at a sufficiently early stage, neglect and behavioral, social and emotional problems in order to eliminate these problems and take measures to resolve them. ". And Article 4-2 lists as the primary reason for removing a child from a family “serious omissions in the day-to-day care received by the child, or serious omissions in terms of personal contact and security at a level that the child needs in accordance with his age and development.” So, according to the law, they did everything right.

A SOCIALIST VIEW ON THE SAVAGES Much to the bewilderment of the Norwegian authorities, this story was of great interest in India. After all, we are talking about the forced detention for assimilation in Norway of two Indian citizens. Anurup Bhattacharya was not a guest worker or an illegal immigrant in Norway who yearned for Scandinavian well-being, but a highly qualified specialist, invited since 2007 to work under a contract with an international oil corporation. An Indian couple has been considering Norway as a temporary residence and their visas are expiring in March 2012.

In addition, literally all the details of this case offended the Indians. First, it was a shock to them to learn that, from the point of view of the Norwegian courts, the entire Indian nation without exception is unworthy of raising their children. The Indian opposition recalled in the debate that even the god Ganesha slept in the arms of his mother when his enemies deprived him of his human head (after which he had to gain an elephant). Secondly, the Indian embassy, ​​which began to officially inquire about the fate of the Bhattacharya children in early December, was first politely sent away by a petty trustee manager who did not see a direct connection between Indian underage citizens and diplomats of this country.

Only Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna and Indian President Pratibha Pratil proved to be worthy interlocutors for the Norwegian children's social service in the dispute that arose. Now the service has gone down the drain. In accordance with the agreement signed between the two countries, the social workers agreed to extradite the children to India to their uncle.

However, guardianship continues to torment unfortunate parents and the Indian public, delaying the transfer of children and forcing the uncle to attend courses on proper infant care.

However, Indian officials found something to answer. Coincidentally, in the midst of the scandal, the continued operation of the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor in India was called into question. On February 2, the Supreme Court of India, recalling a four-year-old corruption scandal, revoked 122 licenses from her. But the mobile communications market in India is the second largest in the world, and Telenor invested $1.24 billion just when entering it. However, the Indian Foreign Ministry managed to hook the Norwegians alive even before Telenor had problems.

The Indians used a terrible weapon - they accused the Norwegian social workers of intolerance. This forced the head of the service, Gunnar Thoresen, to break his proud silence in January and write a press release stating that cultural differences had absolutely nothing to do with this story, and the law does not allow to admit what was the matter.

This is not the first time that Norwegian officials have been accused of intolerance towards other cultures and even racism. Back in 2006, African Press International warned that the Norwegian guardianship authorities were deliberately breaking up the families of African immigrants. But it's one thing - when unknown journalists write something in Africa. And it's quite another thing when headlines from the series "It's getting dangerous to work in Norway" appear in English-language media around the world. After such PR, Norwegians may not be afraid that foreign migrants with MBA degrees will take away their jobs. Only those migrants who do not read newspapers in principle will continue to arrive in the country - because they do not know how.