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Swedish Parents jailed for spanking; children seized
Infantilistic Sweden is a dangerous place for parents to live…
LifeSiteNews.com – November 30, 2010
Swedish Parents jailed for spanking; children seized
By Hilary White
KARLSTAD, Sweden – 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.