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CPS took last year Amina Mahamed Yoonis four sons aged three to eleven washing machine repair years. - I'd rather be in the war in Somalia than to experience this, she says. Now she is pregnant with another child and it also fears will be taken from her.
- One of the boys had said that "mom beat" and that I drank beer. But it is not true. They have no evidence, no medical certificates showing this. In court they came from the nursery and told that I was a good mother, said Amina.
Somali women feel overrun and misunderstood by CPS after a number of cases where children have been taken from them. Halima Hussein Badasso (left) has been deprived of two sons. The CPS believes she has a mental illness that makes her unfit to take care of the kids, which she is contesting. Naima Abdirahman (right) was deprived of three children of the same reason, washing machine repair but got them back after two year battle with child welfare.
- In Somalia, it is customary to spank easy to kids. I did not know that it was not allowed in Norway. We received no information about it when we got here. I can not read and write, I'm illiterate, says Yoonis Mahamed. Distrust
Her case is not unique. In recent years there have been a number of cases where children of Somali origin are taken from their parents. Violence against children is most often cited as the reason when Somali children taken, says Naima Abdiraham.
She was even deprived of their three children aged two to five years, seven years ago because washing machine repair CPS thought she had a mental disorder. After two years of struggle against CPS, she got the kids back. Now she uses her time to help others in the same situation through organization Somali family protection association. She is currently working for a total of eight families where children are taken. - It has emerged washing machine repair a deep distrust of child welfare in the Somali community, says Hassan Ali Omar, Chairman of International Somali Forum in Norway (Inter As - Norway).
The forum recently sent a complaint based on the Somali experiences to County Governor of Oslo and Akershus where they accuse caseworker for corruption, abuse of power and for being too bad on dialogue and cultural competence. Representatives from the Somali community has also had meetings with Children and Inclusion and the Commissioner for Social Affairs in Oslo. A month ago demonstrated Somali women against CPS.
- Our impression is that Somali children now tops the statistics of which children are taken by child welfare, says Omar. However, there are no numbers that can confirm or deny this, according to a telephone survey NTB have undertaken. washing machine repair Worried
- We get a problem if the entire community groups will receive an overall distrust of child protection. For child protection is one of the main protection mechanisms we have for kids, and it's an important part of the trust society washing machine repair is based, says Westhrin. In last week met Westhrin a delegation Somali women to discuss the issue.
- As these ladies said to me; many of us are people who have fled half the earth around to safeguard the future of our children, but when we come to Norway, is one of the first we hear that we are not good enough parents, and realize I'm terrible despairing. They say they need help to understand what is happening and why, tells Westhrin.
Naima Abdirahman (right) and Amina Mahamed Yoonis mean CPS adds too much emphasis on the children's interests without thinking about what it leads to parents being deprived children. washing machine repair - I'm afraid washing machine repair all the time and can not sleep, says Yoonis Mahamed (left) who is deprived of four children. Now she is pregnant with another child and it also fears will be taken from her.
The Norwegian-Somali author Amal Aden, which in 2008 published washing machine repair the book "See Us - concern from a young Norwegian-Somali woman" about disturbing feature of Somali child rearing, believes the Somali community must step in themselves instead of blaming CPS. - Somalis must stop feeling sorry for himself. washing machine repair Still violence a part of their upbringing in many Somali families, and many children do not get particularly freedom. They can not bear their parents' native culture, they will have friends, leisure and living normal, washing machine repair but it gets the not allowed. In many Somali home there is a real battle between parents and children, she says. Hassan Ali Omar denies that violence against children is widespread in Somali families.
- Somali mothers are caring and puts children's interests ahead of their own. This is about linguistic washing machine repair and kuturelle misunderstandings, not neglect and violence, says Omar. Somali solutions Inter As has the following suggestions to the Norwegian authorities based on how Somalis washing machine repair in the United States integrate into American society: An introduction program for newly arrived Somali families that receive information and cultural competence about how to raise their children according to Norwegian regulations. Courses for child welfare employees where they learn how first- parents from Somalia communicates is used to communicate with their children. The purpose is that barnev