My 7 year old sleeps in my bed.
Glad we don’t live in Norway.
That Stavanger/Turkey thing is hair-raising.
The story in the OP puts me in mind of another case, a few years ago (from memory only so forgive me if I have anything wrong), coincidentally of a Norwegian woman recently immigrated to the States who left her baby in its buggy outside a store in Manhattan while she went inside to buy something. Normal practice, I read, in small-town Norway where she was from. However someone saw this baby alone in the street and called the cops, and the woman got busted for neglect by Child Protection Services.
She was Danish.
While I have never been to Norway to say if they do, I was also very surprised when I started traveling to DK over a decade ago and saw all these buggies with kids outside. My husband’s explanation (he is Danish) is that they “sleep better in the fresh”.
You don’t think you’d like it here? We also have rampant xenophobia (which may or may not have had something to do with the child protection cases in question, but now I’m just speculating), problems with drug abuse and violent crime, and, of course, the occasional psychotic right wing terrorist. But at least the weather is terrible.
Gosh, Martian Bigfoot, you really make it sound so attractive, and you didn’t even mention the food!
Good to know I can find work kidnapping children for Stavanger Child Protective Services.
I am from the USA and have friends all over it and all over the world. No one said they were having sex while the child was in the bed,just sleeping. It’s that thinking that makes me think of a quote I once heard " when you find offense in something most likely it’s something in you not the person you find offense in that’s the problem" and no studies have ever proved anything wrong with a child’s development when the sleep with their parents.
The case with the Indian kids is all over the news here today (I was wondering what was taking so long, it’s not like a lot else is happening in this godforsaken country at the moment). The foreign minister, officials, lawyers, everybody is on it. We’ll see how it pans out.
Hey, now! What’s so bad with lutefisk, fermented trout and salted lambs’ heads? 
ETA: What Bigfoot said. It seems as if there’s a general consensus that the local child protection services in Stavanger have a reputation for a certain… overzealousness :dubious:
The woman was Danish, she was drinking in a bar and people inside had told her it was too cold for the baby to be outside. Not only that, the woman had been to NYC many times, and was familiar with US childrearing custom as her husband is a native New Yorker who was with her at the time of the incident.
Not speaking to the validity of the case, but I can see why the parents and children aren’t deported to India - If there was true abuse, you can’t just shove it across the border and say “No child abuse in Norway!” Their purpose is to protect children, not allow abusers to carry on elsewhere.
StG
The indian president is in the loop now, and has promised the grandparents to help in whatever way.
MB, keep us posted.
I actually live in Stavanger (moved here a few years ago), and I have heard quite a few anecdotes about the zealousness of the child protective service here from my colleagues and friends. According to the local newspaper (link is in Norwegian), there is now an agreement that the children can be taken by the father’s brother and then back to India. There will be a press conference tomorrow.
Since the CPS can’t talk about the case and details in the local newspaper are lacking I have no idea what actually happened, but nothing in the case as told by the parents should be cause to take the kids away at all. Seeing as this are the people also responsible for the Turkey SNAFU, it would not surprise me if someone lost their job at some point.
And? Why not? I break off pieces of bread or cookie for my goddaughters and give it to them to eat [and have for years.] How do they think people fed infants bits of solid food before there were tools, or out in a field working? :dubious:
If indeed they were feeding nothing but rice and yoghurt, as alleged, it would certainly be a strange method to do so.
I would tend to assume the lack of nutritious diet is the greater concern though.
In this part of the world, millions of kids are fed rice and yogurt daily by the parents with their hands.
I assume parents are equally concerned about their babies and clean their hands thoroughly before feeding the babies. The couple in question seem to be well educated and should be aware of the cleanliness required.
Why don’t the agency publish their side of the story?
They’re not allowed to.
Honestly - how? Yogurt is wet and liquidy. You can’t break off a piece. If you dipped your finger in it, it would take hours to get a toddler-sized serving into a child. Cup it in your palm and let them slurp it up? Seriously, I’m confused how it is possible.
Yogurt is called curd in India. It is semi-solid to solid in form. Boiled rice mixed with curd can be shaped into small spheres, to be fed to children.
Card also can be diluted with water to be used in certain dishes.