Sweden's government is to set up a special commission to investigate cases where children die in violent circumstances. Morgan Johansson, the public health minister, expressly linked the new commission to the death of Bobby, a ten-year old boy from Småland allegedly killed by his parents.
A group of Swedes who say they were subjected to abuse while in foster care in the 1950s and 1960s announced on Monday that they have filed a class action suit against Swedish authorities and are demanding millions of dollars in damages.
The Swedish Supreme Court has aquitted a childminder of child rape, reducing his conviction to one of child sex assault. The court is taking a less serious view of sex crimes than the government, a senior legal expert says.
The children of single parents are three times as likely to grow up in poverty compared to those of co-habiting parents. That's one of the findings of a survey conducted by Save the Children Sweden.
The adoptive parents of a young Czech boy, who allegedly died due to neglect, have been released on bail by a court in Jönköping. The mother was found guilt of causing grievous bodily harm, and will undergo a psychiatric examination. The court said it would pass judgment on charges of manslaughter on 30th March.
A controversial government proposal to split the childcare allowance equally between parents who are separated, whether or not both agree to it, has been rejected by parliament.
Sweden will begin screening all four-year-olds for obesity in an attempt to curb health risks linked to the increased incidence of overweight children, medical professionals said on
The Czech Republic is to ban Swedes from adopting Czech children after a couple from the Jönköping area were charged with the manslaughter of their adopted three-year old son, who was originally from the Czech Republic.
Sweden is ruled by a bunch of uneducated, irresponsible, often incomprehensible individuals who simply won't - or can't - do what the rest of us want them to do.
The drama student who last month was fined for reading pornographic stories to a group of kindergarten children as part of a study project has appealed against the verdict.
Sweden is becoming a couch-potato nation. Statistics Sweden is out with a report on the time Swedish youngsters spend in front of the television - and the hours are adding up.
The Swedish toy company Brio has banned a book which was to have been sold in its 96 stores across the country. The book, which is a collection of amusing stories by children, was backed by Save The Children, Nordiska museet and Arla.
Over 1,000 children in Sweden are evicted from their homes each year. Many of them go on to lead an unsettled, itinerant existence, according to the first nationwide survey of the problem.
