NORWAY AUTHORITIES TAKE AWAY COUPLE'S KIDS, SAY FEEDING WITH HANDS WRONG

Authorities in Norway have taken away this child and his sister from their parents

My wife and I raised four sons. They slept with us when they were infants and we fed them with our fingers when we felt it was needed. We used forks and spoons when necessary.

So you are asking why am I telling you this story.

Well I am telling you the story to make the point that what we did was neither cruel nor harmful to our children. They have grown up to be fine, healthy young men and responsible citizens. 

I am also telling you this story because I am deeply bothered by a similar story of two Indian parents in Norway who are fighting the state authorities there who have taken away their two young children and placed them in foster care.

Why? Because they were raising their children the way my wife and I did; the way millions of families in India do; the way thousands of families in Trinidad & Tobago do. They allowed their children to share their beds and they used their fingers, instead of spoons, to feed the children.

So the authorities in Norway determined that the parents were cruel to the children, that the kids were at risk. They sent in Social Services to take away the children and place them in a foster home - to live with strangers and deny them the loving care of their own parents whose only sin was that they were using a parenting method that is uncommon in Norway.

The ethnocentricity and racism in this case were more important that cultural and ethnic values and mores. 

Now the parents are fighting to get their children back. What's even worse is that the authorities have determined that cannot even visit the kids, aged three and one. 

The Indian television network NDTV featured the tragic story of ANURUP and SAGARITA Bhattacharya on January 17. 

Here is a link to the story: NORWAY AUTHORITIES TAKE AWAY COPULE'S KIDS, SAY FEEDING WITH HANDS WRONG.

Jai Parasram