Marianne Haslev Skånland, 14 March, 2012

Marianne Haslev Skanland is a professor emeritus of linguistics of the University of Bergen in Norway. She is especially interested in analysis and criticism of science and is a long standing critic of social work and psychology as practiced in the child protection regimes of the West.

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The list below was initiated on the 14 March 2012 and new points are added as time allows.
The list contains arguments all of which have been used by the Nordic child protection service (CPS) and/or allied professions and people in actual cases, such as in case reports and in court when the CPS argues for the necessity of taking children away from their parents and placing them in foster homes or institutions. They bring up the same kind of arguments to prevent foster children being allowed to return home in cases in which…