They must travel a total of almost 500 km in a week to meet their mother
The trials and tribulations of the Bhattacharya toddlers, Abhigyan and Aishwarya, (three-and-a-half and one-and-a-half years respectively), who were brought home to India after a prolonged battle with Norway’s Child Welfare Service do not appear to have ended.
The Child Welfare Committee in Burdwan, West Bengal in its August 9 order, asked paternal uncle and legal guardian, Arunabhas Bhattacharya to make the children travel twice a week from Kulti, where they currently reside, to Burdwan — a distance of 120 km each way — so that their mother, Sagarika Chakraborty could exercise her visitation rights.
This means the children will travel a total of almost 500 km in the space of a week to meet their mother, who has been described by the Norwegian Child Welfare Service as “unfit” to cater for their needs. Abhigyan suffers from a serious personality disorder, known as attachment syndrome, wherein the child fails to form a strong bond of love with its principal care giver (whoever it may be) during the first 8 months of its life. Abhigyan systematically rejects his mother and is afraid of her as is evident from video clips seen by this correspondent in Norway. He also bangs his head, does not speak and shows characteristics of autism.
When contacted by this correspondent, Srikanta Basu, member of the Child Welfare Committee, Burdwan, said: “We have ordered the uncle to bring the children on August 18 and again during the same week so that the mother can exercise her visitation rights. The meeting is scheduled to take place on the premises of the Collectorate in Burdwan in the presence of a social worker and a child psychologist.”
Asked why the children were being made to travel so far, especially since one of them suffers from a serious psychological disorder, Dr. Basu said: “The mother lives in Kolkata. The children live in Kulti. We are making both parties travel half the distance.”
When told that Dr. Bhattacharya will have to take two days’ leave of absence from a job he has just joined, Dr. Basu said: “If he has taken up this responsibility, he must be prepared to make some sacrifices. But we are well aware of the situation and this decision will be reversed after the first two visits by the children.”
On Attchment disorder from Wikipedia:
Such a failure would result from unusual early experiences of neglect, abuse, abrupt separation from caregivers after about six months of age but before about three years of age, frequent change of caregivers or excessive numbers of caregivers, or lack of caregiver responsiveness to child communicative efforts
Give the mother a safe environement, where she feels secure.
She should not be threatened, nor accused, nor blamed.
Give the kids their mother, and security that and no-one will ever take their mother away.
Give the kids their father where rhe father is very concerned about the mother as well as the children, and provides for all of them.This is the formula medicine that will generate love and cure all "disorders". You will not need any uncle-care, or any travel-issue. Let us work toward this goal instead.
There has been a lot discussed in media about the Bhattacharya family.
For this specific new item wouldn't it have been suffice if it was just
mentioned child had certain medical condition , instead of going into
details as mentioned in the end of 3rd paragraph. Isnt the media getting
too much into the personal lives of people
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