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Starting September 1 for the first time on TV icons indicating age restrictions have appeared.
Sometimes it's +12, sometimes +16, sometimes +18.
Within the past few days the first fine ca. 25000 Euros has been issued
to an internet site giving access to the movie "Up in Smoke" at daytime,
meaning it was for the "promotion of drugs".
The whole week Russians have been asking
if we protect children too eagerly.
Our reporter Anton Chechulinskiy proceeded to Scandinavia
where is there very different approach
After very long persuasion he succeeded to visit some popular kindergardens,
where children very educated in some specific topics are
Father + Father = Love
Who have two fathers?
There are such families.
Terence also have two fathers
His song named "Two fathers" Terence also have two fathers
In fact Terence have one dad and one mom
But since his young age he's being taught
that having two dads is at least not worse.
That's what the popular Dutch song is about
He's been offered to sing for a kids' TV show.
In a kindergarden of Stockholm downtown filming the children has not been allowed.
The reason is that their methods of education lead to controversy even inside Sweden itself.
However, the principal considers them revolutionary
as the kids let go of the stereotypical gender norms.
For ex. the staff are not allowed to say the words "he" or "she".
They use an invented impersonal artificial pronoun "hen" - that's common among gays and lesbians.
It can't be translated to Russian. The toys here are as impersonal.
"As an example there's this African gender neutral toy".
It shouldn't be considered a girl just because of its long hair.
It's a genderless toy with a neutral face.
It's up to the child's imagination whether it's a boy or a girl, sad or happy"
There are no stories about the little mermaid, snow white or the sleeping beauty being read to the children.
In the teachers' opinion a masculine or a feminine character are also stereotypes.
Instead of this there are books
in which you can't understand if they're about a boy or a girl.
This kind of books with an non-traditional view on life
is filling the shelves of the Scandinavian book shops.
One of these stories is about a boy and his dad that's got a friend.
At first the main character is curious,
then he's feeling jealous but eventually he's accepting the man as a family member
Very long we looked for the similar book
with the last page showing the boy with dad and mom. But unsuccessful.
In Norway it's taught since school that the concept of a traditional family is severely outdated.
It's one of the initiatives of *** minorities- lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgendered individuals (LGBT).
A Center as part of the Ministry of Children
has been specifically created to work on educational projects.
"Year after year the education system is getting better.
Mathematical problems talking about a family with two dads are appearing in the math books.
We visit schools and talk to the students about what means to be gay.
Our goal is to make people see the whole variety" - says the leader of a Norwegian LGBT association Bard Nylund.
says the leader of a Norwegian LGBT association Bard Nylund.
Gay activists assure that a gay parade in which children would take part
is necessary to promote tolerance within the society.
And they accuse the opponents of underaged children attending these demonstrations in the lack of tolerance.
Even the church doesn't have enough authority in these debates.
"Many of the people criticizing gays are afraid of being called extremists".
The government affects the independence of the church by forcefully promoting tolerance.
You will never be in church if you're a homophobic priest, moreover, gay priests are the preference"
- says the head of the information department of the Norwegian Lutheran Mission Espen Ottosen.
5 years ago there were no social advertisements on this subject
but now they share a significant percentage of all the TV programs in many European countries.
The minority are those that state
"it's not as much of fighting the old stereotypes anymore as it's pushing new ones".
Only a small number of people are not afraid to say the same publicly.
One of the few who have agreed to be interviewed is a young politician Morten Dahle Stark.
"In my point of view homosexuality is surely deviation from norm"
but when we talk about it we get letters with threats and warnings.
Discussing this subject here is very hard because the homosexuals'
homosexuals' interests are supported by the scientific and political elites of the country"
says a member of the "Christian peoples" party of Norway, independent expert of the Staffeldtsgate college.
"Our past Minister of Finance came out as homosexual upon taking a seat in the government.
This is what he writes:
"When I finally came out as gay I became more self-confident and my life of a loner ended at last"
says coauthor of the book "Gay kids" Rolf Martin Angeltvedt.
It's a quote from the book "Gay kids"
It's about the childhood of people of non-traditional *** orientation.
The authors dream of it becoming a school book and also getting published in English for readers abroad.
This project has huge support in Norway but beyond the borders you can face certain accusations.
"Many say that we want there to be more gay kids.
In reality the kids that will see their true selves
and find out whether they are gay or not because of our book,
they will have less issues with drugs and mental health"
thinks one of the authors of the book "Gay kids" Rolf Martin Angeltvedt.
"We can call all of it propaganda.
There's a very successful campaign targeting children.
When instead of talking about the traditional role of family in society
they say that homosexuality is normal, it misleads the kids
The value system is changing"
A child psychologist Ashild Marie Vige came to the interview with her wife,
and they are very happy with the changes in the values.
In Norway there are more than 20 000 of kids growing up in same-sex families.
2/3 of the population support this adoption practice.
"Generally it's still considered to be normal to live with a mom and a dad.
But it's not the norm for many kids.
In Norway we researched how children feel in the same-sex families
And we didn't find difference if they feel worse than in heterosexual families
"Same-sex family is an important part of a modern tolerant society"-
says Kjell Erik, previously known Norwegian gay activist.
and now deputy minister of health,
This is his husband Tron and these are the children Tobias and Bastian
that the adoptive parents educate with the help of their two biological moms who are lesbians.
"One day my son asked: "listen, is it true that a man can also marry a woman?"
Then I explained to him: "it's what the majority of the men do.
And perhaps you will also marry a woman.
If not, it's not that important.
Yes, sometimes we gays get gay kids but they also appear in heterosexual families"
But there are no official statistics on this subject either in Norway or other countries.
It's only recently that the *** minorities have started adopting in large quantities.
While the many of psychologists warns
that every kind of knowledge should have its time.
And kids involved into the world of adults' problems will rather puzzle than help.
There is the age of purity
and only upon overcoming it the child is ready to form their own tastes and bonds.
Including the tolerance to those that are different from them.
Anton Chechulinskiy, Ivan Romanov, Andrey Portnov, Natalia Litovka - 1 TV channel.