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The Ombudsman against Discrimination on grounds of Sexual Orientation has ceased to exist. On 1 January 2009 the Ombudsman was merged with the other Ombudsmen against discrimination into a new body: the Swedish Equality Ombudsman. The previously existing acts against discrimination were also replaced with a new Discrimination Act. Some of the material on this website may therefore be out of date. For more information, see: www.do.se
Goods and services - social services – request for visitation rights
with former partner’s childA woman complained that the social services had denied her request for legal proceedings to be initiated for her to be granted visitation rights with her former lesbian partner’s child. The woman stated that she and her partner jointly had decided to raise a family together with a male couple, and that she from the moment of the child’s birth up until the couple’s separation had been one of the child’s two mothers. According to the woman, the social services’ investigation of the case had been based on a heteronormative view of what constitutes a family. The woman asserted that the social services would not have handled a similar request for visitation rights from a heterosexual step-parent in the same manner and that she had been subjected to discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. In his opinion the Ombudsman observed that the county administrative board in its review of the case had held that the social services had not taken sufficient measures to ascertain whether the granting of visitation rights would be in the child’s best interest. However, the Ombudsman found no evidence in the case to support the existence of a connection between the action taken by the social services and the woman’s sexual orientation. The Ombudsman therefore closed the file with no further action. (Decision 19 December 2007, Dossier no. 852-2006) |
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