Norway has ratified the Hague Convention on the protection of children and on cooperation on international adoptions, and this will directly affect Lithuanian families bringing up their children in Norway.
Childcare
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Vilnius authorities have pledged to work hard over the next five years in order to reduce the number of infants and children living in institutions. Only in the most exceptional cases, when foster parents cannot be found, will children be housed in an orphanage, Vilnius City Council reports.
Following bad press that Norway's child welfare services received in Lithuania for restricting parenting rights of a Lithuanian mother, the country's embassy in Vilnius has hired a public relations agency to improve the country's image.
Member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis has addressed the Lithuanian minister of the interior, requesting to find a Lithuanian child who was taken away from his mother in Norway.
Norway's ambassador to Lithuania speaks out on child custody controversy involving Norwegian child services (2)
Norway's Ambassador to Lithuania Dag Malmer Halvorsen says that children are rarely taken from their Lithuanian families in Norway.
Polish investigator who kidnaps Lithuanian children from Norway's child services: We did things we cannot talk about (1)
It is a public secret what Krzysztof Rutkowski, a Polish private investigator, does for a living. He is helping people who have had their parental rights restricted by Norway's child welfare services to get their children back. Rutkowski tells DELFI that he has worked with families from Lithuania, t...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway has promised Lithuanian Ambassador in Oslo Izolda Bričkovskienė to put every effort to officially confirm that a seven-year-old Lithuanian boy who was returned from Sweden is indeed in Norway. The boy's mother attempted to take her son out of Norway, where t...
Norway's Ambassador Ulland: Child welfare is top consideration for Norwegian institutions, regardless of citizenship (1)
The Lithuanian media has lately caused some stir with stories about Lithuanian expatriates in Norway who have had their children "taken away" by childcare services. Norway's Ambassador to Lithuania Leif Arne Ulland says that his country takes children's welfare very seriously and makes no distinctio...
Citizens of Lithuania adopted 44 children over nearly seven months of this year, the Ministry of Welfare and Labour Ministry said.
