ADF: Sweden may stiffen law to allow for easier gov’t abduction of home-schooled children

ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE
January 17, 2012 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Sweden may stiffen law to allow for easier gov’t abduction of home-schooled children

ADF, HSLDA say changes would violate int’l legal standards on human rights

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A leader of Sweden’s Liberal Party last week called for a change in the country’s social services law so that the government can take children away from home-schooling families more easily by allowing social workers to do so.

The call for the change comes amidst already stringent penalties in Sweden for home schooling. The Alliance Defense Fund and Home School Legal Defense Association have applied to the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of one family whose child was abducted by the government in 2009 and have filed a brief in a Swedish appellate court on behalf of another family fined an amount equivalent to $26,000.

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