What happens to a kid of an imprisoned single parent?

Hi, hello.

I’m worried about someone I know and more specifically their kid. A single parent I know is active in some criminal behavior and to be honest I don’t care about that. I’ll adhere to Norwegian law as far as I know them but I’m not going to meddle in the lives of Norwegians.

However, sometimes it keeps me up at night a little bit thinking about what would happen if the parent would get arrested. Full custody there, never met the other parent. If Norwegian authorities deem it not too serious, could they get something like an ankle bracelet and still raise the kid or do I have to assume they’ll go to prison and risk being estranged of the kid? But then, again and more importantly, what would happen to the kid? Foster homes? Far away from the current place? Does anyone know anything about situations like these?

The kid is almost old enough to see something is going on. The parent defends all this by saying half the earned money goes to trips with the kid or for clothes and stuff and I understand the reasoning, but they earn like 20-30k NOK/month more than me with their day job so this is has nothing to do with survival, it’s only greed.

I don’t want to raise the kid myself, by the way, if anyone is thinking I’m implying that. I just want to feel less worried and say very serious things could happen, maybe I can ask them to reconsider going down this path.

Thank you! Byebye, good day!