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28-07-2003, 11:26
Girls taken away from mother with low IQ score
INGER SETHOV IN OSLO
A NORWEGIAN woman, who was described by friends and neighbours as a good mother, has had her two young daughters taken away by social workers because she had a low score in an intelligence test.
Svanhild Jensen, 24, hopes desperately that a higher score in another IQ test will mean she can be reunited with her daughters, aged one and three.
Ms Jensen’s tale has provoked outrage in Norway.
"She was shocked and humiliated," her lawyer, Anette Lilleengen, said yesterday. "The entire local community supports my client. They have seen what a good mother she is."
Social workers in Ms Jensen’s home town of Kvaenangen, northern Norway, placed the girls in a foster home in April after they said she was unfit to be a mother, primarily because she scored 53 in an IQ test.
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INGER SETHOV IN OSLO
A NORWEGIAN woman, who was described by friends and neighbours as a good mother, has had her two young daughters taken away by social workers because she had a low score in an intelligence test.
Svanhild Jensen, 24, hopes desperately that a higher score in another IQ test will mean she can be reunited with her daughters, aged one and three.
Ms Jensen’s tale has provoked outrage in Norway.
"She was shocked and humiliated," her lawyer, Anette Lilleengen, said yesterday. "The entire local community supports my client. They have seen what a good mother she is."
Social workers in Ms Jensen’s home town of Kvaenangen, northern Norway, placed the girls in a foster home in April after they said she was unfit to be a mother, primarily because she scored 53 in an IQ test.
more >> (http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=803822003)