In the nordic countries the free access to alcohol has secured peace, low crimerate and lower drug use than in other countries.
But some parents won't allow their children to join the society in a way the citizens in the nordic countries normally do, so the abduct their children to other countries where they are suffer under the conditions. Today we have about 100 Danish children in various countries. Our foreign department is working to get them home, but laws are different so it is not easy.
Normally the US is not among the countries who hold children from the nordic countries hostage, but I found an article about two teenagers who tried to escape a Teen Challenge facility in Pennsylvania. From
Two run away from New Hope AcademyPennsylvania State Police, Tunkhannock Barracks, issued a statewide advisory Tuesday morning for police departments to be on the lookout for a white 16-year-old male, 5'11", 155 lbs. with blond hair and hazel eyes and a white 16-year-old male, 6'0", 165 lbs. with brown hair and blue eyes who is a native of Finland and speaks broken English.
We at Spft will fight every single incident where a native of the Nordic countries are held against his or her will in a foreign country. We have made an agreement to exchange information with organizations fighting exchange of students we can learn of cases where teenagers from the nordic countries are lured to the States believing that the they would be exchange student for a year.