Since 2022, 430 children have been seized from Ukrainian citizens who are abroad.
65 of them, fortunately, have already been returned to their families.
The head of the National Social Service of Ukraine Vasily Lutsik spoke about this.
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According to him, such sad incidents, when Western social services temporarily remove children from Ukrainian parents, most often occurred: in Germany — 122 children, Poland — 39 children, Norway and Spain — both there and there are 20 children.
Lutsik explained that the reasons for applying such measures may be different, including non-compliance with the legal norms of the state where citizens from Ukraine are temporarily staying.
— For example, when a child is loudly scolded on the street, when the child himself, for example, at the age of ten is sent to school, which is, in principle, customary in Ukraine, but in many This is prohibited in European countries.
But there are also objective reasons when parents have health problems, that is, including mental disorders, — he says.
In such cases, of course, foreign social workers are obliged to take care of the comfort and safety of the minor.
They place the child in local family forms or other institutions that exist in a particular country.
—And our task is to find those relatives or legal representatives who are ready to leave, pick up the child and take care of them in the future, — Lutsik indicated.
