© TRTWorldNatalya and he husband have joined dozens of parents who want Barnevernet to return their kids.
The child welfare service in the prosperous Nordic country faces accusations of forcibly taking away children from perfectly capable parents.
Norway is tearing families apart. Just ask Natalya Shutakova, and she'll tell you all about it.
Her son turned ten this October. But she wasn't able to hug him or give him a present. That's because all three of her children, aged between seven and eleven years old, have been placed into foster homes and forbidden all contact with their parents.
Natalya and her husband Zignitas Aleksandravicius lost custody of their children this month in a case that has mobilised dozens of angry and aggrieved families against Norway's child protection agency - Barnevernet.
"Never in my worst nightmare have I thought something like this can happen to me," says Natalya, who along with her family moved to Oslo last year from the United States. She and her children are US citizens.
Comment: Expect future stories of rampant child sexual abuse and mysterious deaths at Norway's child care homes. See also: Norwegian child protection agency under investigation for removing children from parents without good reason