in the Indian case the childrens protection service has stated that it was not the fact that the children where sleeping with their parents, or that they where handfed, that led to the children being removed from the parents, but that the reasons for the removal is not to be disclosed. I honestly don't know what happened, and I don't rightly care.
But I happen to know. It is not at all secret, since the mother, Sagarika, has with every right made totally public everything about the case. The child protection services (CPS) certainly DID use such things as hand-feeding and sleeping-arrangements as serious arguments. The son has some neurological trouble, which the BUP (child and youth psychiatry unit) and the CPS certainly did not bother about helping the family with. They branded the mother with a totally false and unfounded psychiatric 'diagnosis' and held that the son's trouble was that he had 'an attachment disorder' caused by the mother. 'Attachment theory' is a favourite quack diagnosis with the CPS, because it is quite untestable. It stems from psychoanalyst John Bowlby and has, in spite of research being done on it, very weak research support, and such support as there seems to be, could equally well be due to other causes.
Stavanger CPS tried to force Sagarika to sign away every right to ever go to court - in India!
They finally had to let the children go back to India, to stay with their paternal uncle, but Sagarika has succeeded in getting them back, going to the Indian courts. The local CPS where she lives has fully supported her, she has been thoroughly tested and evaluated by Indian psychiatrists and psychologists, who concluded that she was completely normal in spite of all she had been put through in Norway. She is taking the very best care of both her children, both with their daily care, finding special resources for the son and a special school for him, and her family fortunately understand completely all about the case and that Sagarika is blameless.
Articles relating to this India/Stavanger case:
Lots in Norwegian, but also lots of links to articles in English:
Indiske barn konfiskert -
http://forum.r-b-v.net/viewtopic.php?f=314&t=6808A very competent group of lawyers, politicians and social scientists in India has worked very thoroughly on this case and others. They have come up with several reports and a petition to the Indian Human Rights Commission.
The Confiscation of the Bhattacharya Children by Norwegian Authorities - A Case Study
http://forum.r-b-v.net/viewtopic.php?p=34177#p34177http://r-b-v.net/dokument/case-study-final.pdfWe should note a sentence on p 30: "The Bhattacharya care proceedings make for sickening reading".Humanitarian Crisis for Indian children and their families in confiscatory child care proceedings abroad
http://dokument.r-b-v.net/india/nhrc-petition-121012.pdfPress announcement:
Save Indian Children From Confiscatory Proceedings Abroad
http://dokument.r-b-v.net/india/press-release.pdfSuranya Aiyar - At press conference held on 12 October 2012 at the Women's Press Club
http://forum.r-b-v.net/viewtopic.php?p=32769#p32769Materials Filed with Petition to NHRC
http://dokument.r-b-v.net/india/supporting-materials-with-petition-121012.pdfLots of articles here, some of them relating to the Bhattacharya case:
http://forum.r-b-v.net/viewforum.php?f=56You might like to look at an article I wrote myself when the case was running. It was published by the newspaper The Hindu in Chennai:
The iron hand that rocks the cradle
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-iron-hand-that-rocks-the-cradle/article2842917.ece*
Good luck to readers, Nemo and others. Even if Apraksin does not care, it is well worth caring and reading and finding documentation. The CPS is a menace and our Norwegian authorities lie endlessly about the "welfare" they carry out.
Marianne Haslev Skånland, Oslo