that's unreal. So basically their child was taken because they told the truth and then misled and now tortured for all these years. This makes me so angry. These people aren't human and they would have made great Nazi SS a few years ago. I heard about the fining too. In Holland they fine parents too now I believe. When my daughter was 5 and we were living there, I asked for permission to get 2 extra weeks off at Christmas because the plan was to visit her grandmother and brother for the first time in her life, they had never met. I asked for those weeks, because it was cheaper to fly then and I couldn't afford to go in high season and since we couldn't do a trip like that any time soon again, I wanted it to be worth our while. As soon as the woman that was to hear me came in I already knew: it was a no go. Her words: 2 weeks was much too long for a 'family visit'. When I told her I thought it was important for my daughter to meet her older brother and grandmother, so it wasn't just an ordinary family visit, she replied that I should take her during the summer. When I told her the price to fly in the summer would rise from around 1500 for us two to about 3000 at least and that I couldn't afford that, she shrugged and said that it wasn't her problem. When I told her that it looked like only people with money could take their children on a holiday then, she shrugged again and that was that! The woman would have made an excellent SS officer too. The worst thing of it was that kids in Holland at the age of 5 don't really 'learn' yet, since it is kindergarten. They only paint, draw and do crafts. So in her opinion this was more important in a child's life than getting to know her family and maybe gain some self-confidence while meeting them. Besides a life-experience of travelling to a different country. It's insane.
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This is ridiculous that you couldn't even take your child out of the programming system for a short time, it goes to show how much control they want from the very beginning :(
Yes, and they want it earlier too if possible. Here in Ireland they've been talking about making 'school' (pre-school or playschool...the first gives me the creeps just hearing it) possible for toddlers at the age of 2! Their sales pitch is to 'make education available to children at this age to assure children are up to speed to keep up later in 'real' school. It is mainly aimed at children of lower income families. I see it as another way for them to have child protection step in where they feel they need to stick their noses. When it comes to that, they will probably find something wrong with the family (single parent families, too alternative, too rural, too independent, you name it: they'll find something wrong with anyone) and another step closer to them deciding what's in your child's best interest. So I'm working on a plan B myself. I am not going to sit around and wait to see it implemented.