Good news for Marius and Ruth Bodnariu, they’re finally getting their kids back! ~ Norway Returning Stolen Children.
 
This case was a travesty from the beginning; the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (Barnevernet) took the five children from their parents back in November under the ludicrous charges of “Christian radicalism and indoctrination.”
 
 
It would be encouraging to learn that the Barnevernet actually came to its senses and returned the kids on their own, but that wasn’t exactly the case, as Jayme Metzgar at The Federalist reports ~ Under International Pressure, Norway Reunites Seized Children With Family ~

What began as one family’s harrowing story soon widened into an overall look at Barnevernet’s practices and raw power. Norwegian law grants enormous authority to local CPS offices, allowing them to seize children, place them in foster care, and even move to terminate parental rights, completely outside the framework of the judicial system and its rules of due process. Moreover, as the BBC documented in its report on the Bodnariu case, the number of children seized by Barnevernet has risen sharply in recent years, with a lopsided impact on children of foreign parents. In many cases, like in Marius and Ruth’s, Barnevernet never even bothered to offer counseling or services designed to keep the family together.

 
After a hearing last Friday (June 3rd) Barnevernet finally agreed to drop the case after realizing that the “County Social Welfare Board” was likely to rule against them in the latest hearing. After seven long months, Eliana, Naomi, Matthew, and John will finally come home ~

While Norway’s defenders might point to this outcome as evidence that its system worked, Peter Costea, a Texas civil rights attorney who donated hundreds of pro bono hours to the case, vehemently disagrees. “The Norwegian system did not work,” he told me. “But for the international pressure on Norway, the children would not be home with their parents today. They would still be where they were back in November. I’m 101 percent certain of that.”

 
Mike Donnelly, director of global outreach for Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), a homeschooling and parental rights advocacy group noted that governmental usurpation of parental rights seems to be a disturbing trend among western nations ~

“Regrettably, Norway is not alone,” (Donnelly) said. “Most western countries have CPS systems that are growing into bureaucracies that refuse to respect the family as the basic unit of society. Too many governments are too willing to traumatize children and families over minor disagreements.”

Totalitarians have always known that breaking down family bonds is an essential part of controlling the masses ~