Swedish Parents jailed for spanking; children seized

[thundley4]

KARLSTAD, Sweden, November 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Swedish district court has sentenced a couple to nine months each in prison and fined them the equivalent of US $10,650 after they admitted to spanking three of their four children as a normal part of their parenting methods. Corporal punishment of children by parents was made illegal in Sweden in 1979, an early step in what a U.S. parental rights lawyer called the nearly total take-over of parenting by the state in Sweden.

Court documents, quoted by Sveriges Television, said that the parents, who have not been named in the press, “explained that they had used, what they themselves described as spanking, physical punishment as part of their methods for raising the children.”

There is no indication of abuse by the parents in the released documents, with the court noting that the parents “had a loving and caring relationship with their children.”

Nevertheless, the parents have been sent to prison and fined 25,000 kronor for each of the “affected children.” The children have been remanded to state-sponsored foster care since early this summer, and Mike Donnelly, Director of International Relations for the US-based Home School Legal Defence Association (HSLDA), told LifeSiteNews.com that it is “extremely unlikely” that the children will ever be returned to their family home.

Donnelly said that the case is typical of the stories of many families with traditional values in Sweden: “In the area of family rights in Sweden things really aren’t going well there.”

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/swedish-parents-jailed-for-spanking-children-seized

If the UN had it's way with children's rights, this would happen here.

[NHSparky]

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/swedish-parents-jailed-for-spanking-children-seized

If the UN had it's way with children's rights, this would happen here.

If the UN had its way with children, the girls would be prostitutes before they hit puberty, and the boys would be pressed into the army before both testicles dropped.

[DumbAss Tanker]

That's as wrong as vegan cowboys.

[Eupher]

I've been to Sweden many times - it's a beautiful country with beautiful people, but their politics absolutely suck. If you think the state-run nannyisms are bad here, over there it's OMG, WTF happened........

[seabelle]

Good grief, if that were the law in the U.S. during the 50's, most of us Boomers would have been orphans. 

[thundley4]

I was arguing with a lib on facebook about this. He is against corporal punishment by parents, but did say that Sweden went to far in this case.

[true_blood]

Liberalism = the mental disorder.