Quote from: Marianne Skanland on February 10, 2015, 05:20:02 PM

A prominent article in the Norwegian newspaper VG (one of the largest) yesterday:

Tsjekkias president sammenligner norsk barnevern med nazi-program (The president of the Czech Republic compares Norwegian child protection with Nazi program)
VG, 9 February 2015

So VG has at long last woken up a little bit. Jan Simonsen has given them information long ago, but as usual the journalists have ignored, with a yawn probably, information about tragic and dramatic child protection cases. (The Norwegian press corps is chock-a-block full of political correctness, and political correctness says that info and protests against the CPS should be ignored.)

And that VG article went even to mention that there were protests from Russia, India and Poland, tough not going into details of the other cases. It's definitely a step in the right direction.
However, such articles are few and far in between.
The previous article is from 2011, when a Polish embassy worker called Norwegian CPS for Hitlerjugend:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/polsk-avis-ambassade-ansatt-kalte-norsk-barnevern-for-hitlerjugend/a/10088287/

Another CPS speciality in an article from 2012:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/norske-barnevernsbarn-sendt-paa-straffeturer-med-marinejegere/a/10061715/
Children under CPS "care" were disciplined by rather brutal military means, using physical and psychological torture. At least 21 such cases are documented from 1990s and these people were seeking compensation through courts.

A thought about CPS in the Southern Europe. I don't see many (any) complaints about it. Having lived in Spain and travelled around Italy, I can say that family structure and bonds there is very close to those of Russians and Eastern Europeans. A Spanish family as a whole would fight tooth and nail if a child is even slightly inconvenienced, independent of how distant a relative that child is.

I wonder if it's only my impression or if it is actually better to move South to avoid CPS harassment that surfaces in Scandinavia, Finland, GB, Holland, Germany, Switzerland..?