Avoiding Norway
"The Child Welfare Service has a responsibility to intervene if measures in the home are not sufficient to meet a child's needs.Who in their right minds, concerned about the welfare and futures of vulnerable children needing careful, loving familial emotional support, nurturing and guidance, would not agree? Parents who neglect their children, who are oblivious to their responsibility to fulfill their obligations as caregivers and loving custodians of their children's welfare are an abomination in society.
"Examples are when a child is mistreated or subjected to other serious abuses at home, or when there is every probability that the child's health or development may be seriously harmed because the parents are incapable of taking adequate responsibility for their child." Norway, Child Welfare Service
Children whose basic needs are withheld due to parental indifference and disinterest, children who are abused mentally or physically, children whose support and encouragement is absent, are children in need of removal from the family home. This is indisputable. Children are to be cherished, they are a supreme gift of nature.
Parents who leave children to fend for themselves are despicable. It is right and proper for the state to step in and remove children from the inadequate, criminal custodianship of such parents. Say, for example, a mother who feeds her infant son and toddler daughter with her fingers. Her fingers! Say, for example, parents who sleep in separate beds, the father allowing his infant son to sleep in his bed, the mother allowing her toddler daughter to sleep alongside her.
How cruelly punishing for these children. It is therefore explicable that Child Welfare officials have removed two children, Avigyan, three, and Aishwarya, one, from the care of their parents, Sagarika Chakraborty and Anurup Bhattarcharya. Permanently. The children to remain in foster care in Norway until they reach 18 years of age. The parents to be permitted only occasional contact with their children.
Mr. Bhattarcharya is a geoscientist, working in Norway. No doubt he now bitterly repents his decision to remove his family from India and to take up residence in Norway. He appealed to his home country to intervene, in his desperate attempts to have his children restored to their mother and himself. S.M. Krishna, India's External Affairs Minister had urged Norwegian authorities "to find an amicable and urgent solution to ensure that the children are returned to the biological parents".
However, Jonas Gahr Stoere, the Norwegian Foreign Minister, issued a statement that Norway was "working hard to find a solution that is in the best interests of the children involved". Obviously, in Norway, the best interests of the children take precedence over the self-interest of parents who feel they love their children despite that they have hugely erred in following Indian custom in raising children, rather than adhering to customs native to Norway.
"I do not know the logic behind the Norwegian laws. One thing is clear, they do not know the Indian culture and sensibilities", said Sushma Swaraj, parliamentary leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in India. "If feeding a child by hand or a child sleeping with parents is an offence then all Indian parents, including me, are guilty of this."
Child protection officers in Stavanger, southern Norway, which is where the family lives, decided that the children's mother was overfeeding them. They expressed grave concern that the infant boy slept in his father's bed. The children's maternal grandfather characterized the decision to remove them from the care of their parents as cruel. "The way the parents were caring about their children is perfectly normal as per our social norms."
If this story isn't evidence in glaring technicolour lights that Norway is practising their own special brand of racist superiority in a culture of knowing it all about child-rearing, imposing their 'exceptional' values on those of other cultures and ethnicity, how else could it be interpreted? That such a monumentally stupid, unjust and cruel removal of children from their parents could be officially justified is simply hubristically unacceptable.
Indian parents be warned: avoid Norway.
Labels: Human Fallibility, Immigration, India, Societal Failures
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, January 26, 2012
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