From our professional experiences, it appears that mostly young, sole parent families, economically and educationally weaker families, families with health challenges and immigrant parents are targeted by the social services in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Also parents with religious and philosophical beliefs, which do not seem to be politically accepted, are often deemed as unsuitable parents, which invariably leads the social councils, acting upon the advice of the social workers, to remove the children from their families and place them in foster homes. However, even highly educated parents with high- profile professions have experienced social workers interference in their private and family lives. Since the beginning of the 1980s, a great number of families have fled from Sweden in order to protect their children from being taken into care and placed in foster homes.1 Many rightfully upset critics even refer to these cases as the child care and abduction industry, because of the large sums of money that are being paid to the foster parents, while others use the term: the child abuse and family destruction industry, because the children and their parents are invariably traumatised. - Nordic Committee for Human Rights (December 2013). Read more for some other similar cases. nkmr.org/docs/Report_to_the_European_Parliament_Petitions_Committee.pdf
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