Niharika Dass:
India must not give in to the US’ ‘global bullying’ tacticsSunday Guardian, 19 May 2018
Very illuminating and thorough article about 'the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction', and the way the United States is trying to make India accept that a child who has once lived in America necessarily is served by staying there or by being brought back there, even if the parent who takes care of it on a daily basis (usually the mother) is back in India.
The point is also made that the Hague Convention is sometimes used not to secure the children living with one if their parents, but to commit children to foster care:
"The prescribed remedy of seeking help from the authorities, thought of in the USA as a safeguard mechanism, is fraught with danger for the children involved. When abuse in a household with children is reported to the authorities, Child Protective Services (CPS) inevitably get involved. The strategy that is generally deployed is to remove the children from the abusive household first and ask questions later. Thus, the mother is not only faced with an abusive marriage, but she also faces losing her children to CPS and ultimately, to foster care."Compare the way Norway went to court in Poland to make Poland force a girl back to foster care in Norway, Norway trying precisely to have the case run according to the Hague Convention:
Judgment in Poland: a nine-year-old girl NOT to be extradited to Norway.
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The article is now also on SaveYourChildren:
Indian mothers stand up to US bullying in the name of “child welfare”