For father who cannot see their child because Mother took your child and moving from country to country to escape from justice.
🗺 🇫🇷 France 🛫 🇳🇴 Norway 🚢 🇩🇪 Germany.
Afer a few years to find out that my daughter was abducted in Norway (2015), a few trials, once I was close to reach out the Norwegian administration, her mother moved to Germany (2022). So now I have to start all over but in Germany... or somewhere else.
This painful and almost incredible reality has the effect, in Norway, Germany, of allowing a parent, with complete impunity and with the blessing and protection of judges, schools, social services, to abduct children and cut them off from all contact with the other parent until their majority (and even beyond, as a consequence of the parental alienation suffered by the child) by refusing contacts and visits, making them "de jure and de facto" orphans, and depriving the other parent of all their rights.
It also has the consequence, in the case of binational children, of depriving children of half of their cultural identity, their family and the bilingualism of their early years, of the love of both parents, which are nevertheless promising for their future, in an increasingly internationalized world.
This site is also addressed to any sympathetic person and/or likely to provide help and information.
What kind of information might be useful and in what areas?
- in legal and psycho-sociological fields;
- family law;
- case law for French, Norwegian, German, and Foreign nationals;
- international conventions
- parental alienation syndrome (PAS);
- the presentation of this issue in the media, associations, cinema, etc. (articles, bibliographic and multi-media references, internet links, etc.).
- connecting parents in difficulty (under the guise of anonymity, by using a pseudonym that protects confidentiality), sharing experiences and information, assistance and mutual aid.
- the presentation of the following basic demands:
- Make Norway fill in the database of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, in particular the definition of displacement, child relocation (7 months being considered as vacation by Norway), habitual residence criterion for abduction.
- Make Norway respect the Hague Convention concerning jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition, enforcement and co-operation in respect of parental responsibility and measures for the protection of children, in particular cooperation in matters of parental responsibility and measures for the protection of children.
- Sharing of parental authority after separation and/or divorce. In Norway, a woman can register with sole parental authority, effectively annihilating all rights of the father on its soil and in other countries.
- Inscription in Norwegian and German law of coercive and systematic means (France) to force a parent to respect a right of visitation for separated and divorced parents — ultimately, shared custody — without distinction of the parent's gender.
- Prevent any registration, removal of a child from a school without the explicit agreement of both parents.
- Taking into account of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) by courts.
- Legal recognition of the right of binational children to receive a double cultural and linguistic education, corresponding to that of their two parents.
- Taking into account of the "superior well-being of the child" by courts without distinction of the parents' gender.
- Equal treatment, in fact, of foreign parents before European courts.
⚖️ International Legal Framework: Systematic Violations of Fundamental Rights
The systematic denial of father's rights in Norway, France, and Germany constitutes a grave violation of internationally recognized human rights and fundamental conventions that these countries have ratified but consistently fail to enforce.
🚨 Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights explicitly guarantees the right to respect for private and family life. This fundamental right includes:
- The right of parents to maintain regular contact with their children
- The right of children to maintain relationships with both parents
- Protection against arbitrary interference by state authorities
- The obligation of states to take positive measures to reunite parents with their children
Yet Norway, France, and Germany systematically violate Article 8 by:
- Failing to enforce visitation rights and parental contact orders
- Allowing one parent to unilaterally cut off all contact with the other parent
- Refusing to take coercive measures against parental alienation
- Granting sole custody to mothers without justification, discriminating against fathers
- Protecting and enabling parental abduction rather than preventing or punishing it
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has repeatedly condemned states for violations of Article 8 in cases involving parental contact and custody. Despite multiple judgments against them, Norway, France, and Germany continue these systematic violations with impunity. Visit the ECHR case-law database (HUDOC) to review countless similar cases.
🌍 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction
The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction was specifically designed to protect children from the harmful effects of international abduction by ensuring their prompt return to their country of habitual residence.
Critical failures in enforcement by Norway, France, and Germany:
- Norway manipulates the definition of "habitual residence" to favor abducting mothers, considering extended unauthorized stays as legitimate "vacations" rather than abductions
- Refusal to return abducted children despite clear violations of the Convention, citing spurious "best interests of the child" arguments that systematically favor mothers
- Extreme delays in proceedings that allow the abducting parent to establish "new roots" and make return practically impossible
- Germany's failure to cooperate with return orders and to ensure enforcement of judgments from other Convention countries
- France's inconsistent application of the Convention depending on whether the father is foreign or French
The 1996 Hague Convention on Parental Responsibility and Child Protection further obliges signatory states to cooperate in matters of parental responsibility. Yet these countries actively obstruct such cooperation when it would benefit fathers.
👶 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes children's fundamental right to maintain regular contact with both parents (Article 9) and to preserve their identity, including family relations (Article 8).
These countries systematically violate children's rights by:
- Depriving children of contact with one parent (typically the father)
- Erasing half of the child's cultural and linguistic identity
- Allowing and facilitating parental alienation that causes severe psychological harm
- Prioritizing administrative convenience over the child's best interests
- Refusing to consider the child's right to know and be cared for by both parents
🚫 Denial of Justice and Systematic Violations of the Rule of Law
The rule of law has been systematically abandoned when it comes to father's rights in these countries, creating a state-sanctioned discrimination:
- Judicial bias: Courts systematically favor mothers in custody and visitation decisions, regardless of the evidence or circumstances
- Unenforced court orders: Even when fathers obtain visitation rights, courts refuse to enforce them or sanction non-compliant mothers
- Access to justice denied: Prohibitive costs, language barriers, and bureaucratic obstacles prevent fathers (especially foreign fathers) from effectively defending their rights
- Discrimination against foreign fathers: Non-native fathers face even greater obstacles, with assumptions of unsuitability based solely on nationality
- Impunity for mothers: Mothers who violate court orders, obstruct contact, or commit parental alienation face no consequences, creating incentives for such behavior
- No meaningful recourse: Appeals are routinely dismissed, and enforcement mechanisms are deliberately ineffective
This constitutes a denial of justice under Article 6 of the ECHR (right to a fair trial) and violates fundamental principles of the rule of law that require equal treatment before the law and effective remedies for rights violations.
🔒 Impossibility to Access Information About the Child
One of the most egregious violations is the complete inability of fathers to obtain even basic information about their own children:
- Schools refuse to provide information about the child's education, progress, or well-being, even to legal parents with parental authority
- Medical records are withheld preventing fathers from knowing about their child's health, vaccinations, or medical treatments
- Administrative bodies refuse cooperation citing "privacy" or "data protection" to justify denying a parent's legitimate right to information
- No legal recourse exists to compel these institutions to share information with both parents, even when parental authority is shared
- The abducting parent controls all information flow and can completely erase the other parent from the child's life with state complicity
This information blackout is particularly acute in Norway and Germany, where data protection laws are weaponized against non-custodial fathers, and France where administrative bureaucracy serves as a barrier to parental rights.
⚠️ Visitation Rights: Paper Promises, No Enforcement
Even when fathers manage to obtain court-ordered visitation rights, these remain purely theoretical:
- No coercive measures: Courts refuse to impose penalties on mothers who ignore visitation orders
- Endless excuses accepted: Courts accept any excuse from mothers (child is "sick", "doesn't want to", "has activities") without verification
- Progressive alienation encouraged: As contact is blocked, the child becomes alienated, which is then used to justify further denial of contact
- Years of legal battles yield nothing: Fathers spend years and fortunes in court only to see every victory rendered meaningless by lack of enforcement
- Supervised visits as punishment: Courts impose supervised visitation on fathers as if they were dangerous, based on no evidence, further damaging the parent-child relationship
- Geographic distance exploited: When the child is moved to another country or region, visitation becomes practically impossible, and courts refuse to order the return of the child
Resources for further information:
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European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
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Hague Conference on Private International Law
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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Council of Europe - Children's Rights Division
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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children -
International Division
📢 Call for International Action
These systematic violations demand international attention and action:
- International monitoring bodies must hold Norway, France, and Germany accountable for their persistent violations of the ECHR, Hague Conventions, and UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Economic and diplomatic pressure must be applied to force these countries to respect their international obligations
- Individual cases must be brought to international courts to expose these systematic violations
- Media attention and public awareness must be raised about this state-sanctioned discrimination against fathers
- Support networks for affected fathers must be strengthened to share information, strategies, and provide mutual assistance
Justice delayed is justice denied. For separated fathers and abducted children, justice has been denied for far too long.
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