New youth welfare office farce

Why is mom only allowed to see her children for two hours?

A mother is fighting not only to get her two children back at some point - but to be allowed to see them at all. Paul and Amelie were taken to another province by the youth welfare office because there is said to be no place for two-year-olds in Carinthia. Not even a court felt responsible for complaints against this right of contact.

Paul is celebrating his second birthday today. Not with mom and dad in Klagenfurt, but at the SOS Children's Village in East Tyrol, where the little boy has been living with his sister Amelie, who will soon be three, for several months. The children - both names have been changed to protect them - have been taken away from their biological parents, as they have been classified by the youth welfare office as "not capable of parenting". Nevertheless, children should not lose touch with their family. Just how difficult the authorities sometimes make this in Austria is shown by the gauntlet thrown down by the Carinthians.