Sweden's Social Insurance Agency claimed back 86 million kronor ($9.44 million) from parents wrongfully claiming benefits to look after their sick children in 2016.
This opinion piece was written by <a href="theconversation.com/profiles/gabrielle-richard-307962">Gabrielle Richard</a> of <a href="theconversation.com/institutions/universite-paris-est-creteil-val-de-marne-upec-2445">Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)</a> and was first published by <a href="https://theconversation.com">The Conversation</a>.
Victoria Martínez moved to Sweden with her Spanish husband and their two children this year. Little did she know she would be in for the ride of a lifetime.
If it feels like it's been months since the school term ended and you've exhausted all their usual favourite activities, here are five events in Sweden this week which are totally family-friendly.
Swedish parents have complained after they turned on their television and sat down with their kids… only to watch a puppet character use a condom to make the Scottish delicacy haggis.
Swedish hit app Toca Boca, which has been riding high on Sweden's tech and startup success since its launch in Stockholm five years ago, has been sold to a Canadian entertainment firm.
A Swedish newspaper has strongly defended its decision to publish a photo of a boy wearing this printed T-shirt, claiming critics used the picture as an "excuse" to whip up racist sentiment against the 15-year-old, who is an asylum seeker.
Swedish police's recruitment process just got a whole lot easier. This touching letter was sent in by three children wanting to offer their services as 'spies' if officers should require any extra cover.
At least 40 Swedish children aged 0-10 are believed to be staying with Isis after their parents travelled to Syria or Iraq to join the terror group, according to the national coordinator against violent extremism.
UPDATED: Staff at a home for refugee children in southern Sweden were forced to barricade themselves in a room on Wednesday night, after 19 young men in their care rioted and attacked them with weapons.
If you're a children's nurse – is it a good idea to get naked for a saucy calendar? 'Sure,' thought health staff at Sweden's biggest paediatric hospital and landed themselves in very hot water.
More and more parents are being caught cheating the Swedish benefits system, which allows them to get paid for looking after sick children, with one even spotted on a booze cruise while claiming payments.
UPDATED: Officials in Trelleborg in southern Sweden have told The Local that around 1,000 unaccompanied refugee children and young adults who have arrived in the town over the last month have since gone missing.
At least 10,000 refugee children have arrived in Sweden since the beginning of 2015 — a sharp rise from previous years — making it the EU nation with the highest number by far.
Our northern Sweden correspondent, Paul Connolly, loves the Swedish "dagis" system - luckily so do his twin daughters, who have just started daycare in the Nordic nation.
Two of the three adult daughters believed to have been kept locked up by their mother in southern Sweden have moved back in with her. The youngest daughter has not returned.
Sweden's largest children's hospital uses animated characters to help relax kids before they have operations. Camille Bas-Wohlert took a closer look at the project amid fears it needs to adapt to the tablet generation.
UPDATED: Two security guards at Malmö's main train station who were filmed apparently banging a nine-year-old boy’s head into a stone floor are being investigated by police.
A music video about penises and vaginas from a Swedish children's programme that went viral last week, was classified by YouTube as 'adult' content over the weekend, sparking a new row about the song.
