MH Skånland wrote:
Three workers for the system defending itThree central people in the cps system essentially attempt to explain away and trivialise the relevance of the case against **** (Name censored due to Norwegian authorities. -admin) for Norwegian child protection generally, and thereby defend Barnevernet, in the usual way. They also try to claim that the international attention Barnevernet has drawn has
other reasons – as if that would excuse Barnevernet even if it were so.
Vigdis Bunkholdt, psychologist,
Jona Hafdis Einarsson, leader, Norsk barnevernsamband (Norwegian cps association),
Jan Storø, associated professor, OsloMet University:
Hvorfor svarer ikke norske politikere på BBCs spørsmål om barnevernet?(Why do Norwegian politicians not answer BBC's question(s) about Barnevernet?)
Aftenposten, 16 August 2018
The problem with people like these is that they think they have done a great finding every time they have identified a problem in a family.
Well, guess what? Finding problems in a family is the easiest thing in the world!
Helping children though is the most difficult task one can imagine.
And the CPS indeed very often does not help children at all.
Is it not interesting how these lecturers and experts on child care never ever touch the subject of the effect of the CPS measures?
In fact, this subject terrifies them. They want to talk about everything else.
I have myself been lectured by one of these experts` offspring on how traumatic it can be for a child not to be seen! (I did not have eyes in my neck as my son entered the room.) They love focusing on all the problems they can identify in your home. Some ridiculous, some more relevant.
But if you ask them the outcome of their work, they will go silent or talk about something else.
Were the children in the BBC program spanked or punished physically in other ways? I have no idea. But if they were, would it really change much? These authors seem to believe that if the BBC journalist had been harder on these parents, their faults would have been exposed, and it would have changed the whole message in the program.
Really? I dont think so.
It can be trauamatic for a child to be spanked. Or to have it`s fingers smacked. Or to be held hard because it has done something wrong. Many of us adults know by own experience, because this was the way children were brought up some decades ago.
But any kind of violence against children is forbidden these days. And maybe parents should be prosecuted or fined in some cases.
But do not punish the children! And indeed do not ruin the childrens`entire lives!
But that is exactly what the CPS does, and that is what the fuss and the protests are all about. The CPS uses measures that are more traumatic than the problem they were meant to solve!
To think that one does the spanked child a favor by taking it by force to a foster home is such a great misunderstanding that one can wonder where to begin. It is shocking and indeed scary that professionals on child care can be of such an opinion.
The CPS people either do not believe, or they just do not want to acknowledge that some of their measures are more traumatic and psychologically more violent than most other things one can think of.
Jan Storø ,Vigdis Bunkholdt and Jona Hafdis Einarsson all seem to be in this kind of denial.
And then again, in most cases there is not even talk of the slightest violence, but rather the parents`"lack of skills".
And when people like us tell them that the CPS again and again bring children from ashes to fire, they do not understand it.
Isn`t it terrifying that our greatest experts on children do not understand the pain and lifelong sorrow they cause in people`s and children`s lives?
It is so embarrassing for them that the outcome of CPS is, has always been, and always will be devastating, that they choose not to relate to such facts at all.
But these facts are the very reason why children should
never be taken out of families unless real serious reasons call for it.
The loud critics against the CPS are heard because more and more people understand that the CPS ruin families
without very good reasons. And when they do not have good reasons, they need psychologists, psychiatrist and other expert witnesses paid by the CPS to drive the care orders through the decision making system. This is very close to corruption, though denied by those who are participants and benefiting from it.
And when the politicians this time are silent, it can be for different reasons.
One of these reasons can be a dawning understanding of just how lost and malfunctioning the Norwegian CPS system is.