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Norway authorities take away Indian couple’s kids, say feeding with hands wrong
NDTV
2012-01-17 00:00:00 Video to watch: Sott.net
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Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya – an Indian couple from Kolkata are living a nightmare in Norway. Their children – a three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter – were taken away from them by Norway’s child protective services and placed in foster care eight months ago.
The drastic measure was taken because, according to the child protective services, the couple were not bringing the children up properly. What did they do wrong? They fed the children with their hands and the infants slept in the same bed as the parents.
“My son was sleeping with my husband. They said he should sleep separately from your son,” said Mrs Bhattacharya.
“Feeding a child with the hand is normal in Indian tradition and when the mother is feeding with a spoon there could be phases when she was overfeeding the child. They said it was force feeding. These are basically cultural differences,” said Mr Bhattacharya.
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