Wow, I came across this thread after searching for info on the web, and it seems there are quite a few myths being spread here.
Norway has a peculiar child protection (barnevernet) system. At a most insignificant suspicion that a child has bee mistreated by its parents, the child will be taken by the sate from its parents and relocated to an undisclosed foster family.
This is simply false. The fact is that taking away a child from its parent is the last resort. The CPS has to exhaust all other available options before they can take a child away from its parents, and even then they are required to get a ruling from a special court for social issues. That ruling can be appealed to the courts as well. And unless the courts are in it with the CPS, those rulings confirm that the CPS doesn't just snatch children for trivial things.
And all those cases of foreigners having their children taken away, consider for a moment that perhaps those people don't exactly want to share details that are beneficial to their case. And the CPS in Norway generally can't comment on specific cases due to confidentiality law.
Also consider this: Norway is one of the top countries in the world when it comes to human rights. There's no death penalty, the maximum prison sentence is 21 years (except for "forvaring", which there are extremely strict criteria for and which is never permanent anyway), and so on. Do you really think one of the top countries on human rights would have an entire system in place just to terrorize innocent parents?
Two weeks ago a Russia family working in the North of Norway experienced just that. Their 5-year old son had a loose milk tooth, which the mother helped to remove. The child mentioned that at school and the teacher took the child home, suspecting abuse. The parents were getting worried when the child did not return from school in the evening, but became even more worried when they got summoned by the police to give statements.
A child being taken away for talking about losing a milk tooth? Does anyone really believe this story?
Norway had about 8000 such cases, 20 of which against Russian citizens. India made a TV documentary, called "Nightmare in Norway" - an Indian child got confiscated from its Indian parents in the same manner after the authorities learnt that the child crept into his parents bed after having nightmares (a child, according to the rules, must always sleep in its own bed).
There are no rules in Norway that a child must sleep in its own bed. This is obviously not why the child was taken away from its parents. There's obviously far more to this story than these people claim. Consider that beating your children is allowed and even endorsed in many countries. Not so in Norway. So if you move to norway and keep abusing your children, yes, CPS might knock on your door. But they will also attempt to educate you first. To give you other tools than physical violence when raising a child.
The state-kidnapped children are often placed in care of families of "non-traditional orientation", which is in accordance with the Norwegian doctrine of de-genderaisation of children. A child should be an "it", until "it" is old enough to decide if it wants to be a "she" or "he".
This is also false. There's no "de-genderization". Children are either placed in an institution or in foster care. Foster families are regular families that attempt to raise the children "as their own".
So, when visiting Norway with a child, make sure not to anger it so that it does not start tell tall tails of abuse to its teachers and don't feed it from your hands (falls under the transgression of "forced feeding")
This is also completely false. There's no such definition in Norway.
What are the sources for all these obviously false claims? I can't believe that people actually believe the misinformation about "must always sleep in its own bed", "de-genderization" or "feeding a child is considered forced feeding".