STOCKHOLM, Sweden (WordNews.org) Jan. 17, 2012 – The Home School Legal
Defense Association and Alliance Defense Fund say proposed changes to
Swedish law could make it easier for the government to take children
away from home-schooling families.
Liberal Party politician Lotta Edholm wrote in a Jan. 10 column in Aftonbladet,
a prominent Swedish newspaper, that “the social services law should be
amended so that social services are able to intervene when children are
kept away from school by their parents — often for religious or
ideological reasons.”
The Home School Legal Defense Association said the recommended law
change comes at a time when there are already stringent penalties for
home schooling in Sweden. The Home School Legal Defense Association and
Alliance Defense Fund have applied to the European Court of Human Rights
on behalf of one family whose child was taken 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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