In the shadow of draft revolutionary changes to the treaties of the European Union, another work is going on unnoticed – straight concerning the safety of our families. The European Commission is preparing to "enhance integrated kid protection systems". What does that mean? It is hard to defy the impression that an effort has been made to impose solutions based on German Jugendamt and Norwegian Barnevernet.
We know about the different models of kid protection, due to the fact that the Ordo Iuris experts have been saving families from soulless Norwegian, German, Dutch, Belgian and Swedish officials for years. Even newborns are separated there from nursing mothers if officials perceive disturbing behaviors specified as irregular lifestyles, frequent abroad trips of a kid with a parent or... besides wet a baby diaper. Each of these stories was documented in court disputes. In any cases, they ended up fleeing the country, in others, a permanent separation.
In Norway, the adoption procedure is frequently triggered as a consequence of false anonymous reports, and the small ones go to foster families. Mom and Dad are permanently separated from the terrified separation of children, receiving sometimes the right to 1 or 2 hr meetings with the kid annually in a specially monitored room. Officials frequently instruct parents that trying to talk about the reasons for separation or the promise to return home will prompt an immediate interruption of the anticipated gathering by officers.
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(...) we aid families who fled to Poland before the offices for children. At the beginning of October, the Warsaw territory Court granted the application of Ordo Iuris and the D.A.'s office and refused to release Norway's parents who fled to our country with their six-year-old daughter. The fast reaction of our lawyers led to the discharge of her parents by the police and the release of the girl from the orphanage in which she spent 1 day.
In the message of reasons, the court referred to the arguments of the lawyers Ordo Iuris, pointing out that erstwhile the parents came to Poland with the child, they did not commit a crime, and that in the case of Norway there was a hazard of breaching Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights – the principles of the protection of household life.
A fewer months ago, we helped a Polish household from Braniewa, who returned to Homeland after Barnevernet had taken her 3 daughters for 18 months due to a groundless talk about violence. In the course of her separation from her parents, the youngest daughter was in a Norwegian foster household who did not give her appropriate medical assistance. As a result, the kid is suffering from serious gastrointestinal disorders. The another girl was in the care of a female who was constantly organizing spotted parties, and had more alcohol in the fridge than food. On the another hand, the eldest of the daughters was placed in a juvenile center, where she fell victim to violence...
Despite the final termination of proceedings before the Norwegian court, Barnevernet sent a letter to the Polish authorities expressing his concern about the situation of the family, which led to the initiation of proceedings. Our lawyers' intervention translated into a affirmative conclusion. The territory Court in Braniewo agreed with the position of Ordo Iuris, considering that there was no grounds for interference with parental authority in this case.
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We support Polish families
Lawyers of Ordo Iuris proceed to supply free legal protection to Polish families, in which the life of officials is unjustly interfered. In mid-September, we were successful in dealing with an eight-man household from Siedlec. Her problems began with the fact that the 10-year-old eldest boy – with the diagnosed Asperger syndrome – justified not preparing for a lesson with no time to be caused by the fact that he had to deal with his younger siblings (four brothers aged 9, 5, 3, 1 and a sister aged 7), as well as cleaning the cage in the block, washing and ironing clothes.
Teachers, ignoring the fact that 1 of the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome is the tendency to “colorize” stories – alternatively of examining the substance thoroughly – filed a request to court for insight into the situation of the family. As a consequence of their actions, the court initiated proceedings to restrict parental power. In their intervention in the case, Ordo Iuris lawyers proved in the proceedings that the parents of six children decently exercise parental authority, taking good care of them, as confirmed by the witness witness witness and household guardian. In the course of the proceedings, it was not confirmed that the boy had to care for his siblings and his home. Instead, it has been shown that all children eat breakfast at home, have ready meals for school, and lunches purchased there. Each kid is equipped with essential school supplies and supported by parents in developing their interests and passions.
When examining the household case, the Seventeenth territory Court acknowledged the merits of the arguments of Ordo Iuris and stated that there was no reason to restrict parental power. On the grounds of the order, the court indicated that the request for inspection of the household situation by the educational establishment was totally unfounded and not preceded by a appropriate examination of the case. Interestingly, the court-martialed schoolteachers of the boy admitted that they did not have full awareness of the serious consequences for the family.
Today, we are besides helping another 3 - individual household in Siedlec, facing household conduct. The case began with the fact that the 13-year-old daughter of our beneficiaries was the victim of peer force at the school she attended at the time. Unfortunately, teachers and pedagogues, alternatively of helping a girl, decided that she – the victim – was the problem. They accused her parents of raising their daughter in an “asocial” way and brought a request to court for insight into the household situation. As a result, parents decided to decision a teenager to another school to take care of her welfare. We hope that at the next November's trial, the court will end the proceedings by dismissing the charges against parents and considering that the interference in the life of the household was unjustified.
Serious consequences of the recklessness of children
We know from experience that the origin of household proceedings is frequently the recklessness of children who, in anger at parents, can tell lies to teachers, educators, psychologists or social workers. This was the situation we had in Ruda Śląska, where we represented the parents of 2 girls aged 13 and 7. The older 1 had problems with eating disorders, self-harm and social media addiction. That's why her parent brought her to a psychologist.
After her parent pointed out to her daughter that she was utilizing social media besides much and took her phone, an angry teenager told her in a intellectual office that she was being victim to parental violence. As a result, a blue card was established, household proceedings were initiated, and abuse proceedings were conducted. After we joined the case, making evidence and pointing out that there was no force in the family, the court retained full parental power.
We represent parents from Kalisz who, having 3 biological children, for respective years have formed a loving foster household for 3 siblings who have been suffering from FAS as a consequence of their biological mother's consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. household problems resulted from a misunderstanding arising during the holiday.
For logistical reasons, parents decided to spread the holidays into 2 tours. In the first period the parent was to go to them with biological children, and the father stayed home with 3 another children. Then the parent was to go to the same place for the same time period with the nonbiological children, and the father stayed home with the biological children. Although parents explained to their children the details of the vacation plan, after their parent and children left for the first turnus, 1 of the non-biological sons felt hurt by the situation and convinced his brother to go together to MOPS. As a result, the boys were taken from foster parents and placed in foster care. Moreover, their younger sister, who was raised almost from birth in the household of our beneficiaries, besides went to foster care.
We took legal support from a Whitegard matrimony that adopted 3 siblings. The oldest 10-year-old boy in anger at his parents told at school that he was being mistreated at home. After the initiation of the household proceedings, the court assigned the curator’s household and directed the parents to workshops to improve their educational competence. In the case, we filed a complaint against the court's decision.
Families should be helped, not separated
We intervene in Grójec, where the household court before the first trial, for which the household has been waiting for over a year, decided to take distant 4 children aged 4 to 8. Children have improvement delays to varying degrees of progress. The reason for the interference in the family's life was the school's accusations, which accused parents of neglecting children so they would not function decently in the educational facility.
There were any educational problems in the family, but taking the children out of the home and placing them in foster care is, in our opinion, besides far-reaching interference with the right of parents to rise their children. alternatively of taking children from home, social services should have provided support to parents, for example by assigning household assistants to their family. This is confirmed by teachers from the fresh schools of children in whom they began to learn after being placed in foster care. They disagree from teachers at the first school, indicating that children accomplish correct academic outcomes and their parents are very active in the life and education of children. Parents care about maintaining a strong relation with their children, visiting them whenever they can. A good acclimatization of children in fresh schools convinced parents to leave their children at these facilities upon their return home.
Unfortunately, the court, which dismissed all requests for leave of children, did not let even their one-day stay at home, and at the end of the erstwhile school year decided to decision the children to a care and educational facility of the socialization type, which remains a considerable distance from Grójc. The transfer not only active a change in the place of children's education, but besides made it importantly hard for parents to contact them. Despite the difficulty of reaching the fresh place of residence of the children, parents proceed to keep in regular contact with them, visiting them as much as possible, and remaining in regular telephone contact. The first proceeding in this proceedings is scheduled to take place on 30 October.
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If the European Union imposes on Poland and another countries of the community the implementation of patterns akin to Barnevernet and Jugendamt, then Polish families will be permanently separated for no adequate reason. We can't let that happen.
Jerzy Kwasniewski (Ordo Iuris)
