A Greenlandic mother’s one-hour-old baby was removed from her by Danish authorities after she underwent “parenting competence” tests – despite a new law banning the use of the controversial psychometric assessments on people with Greenlandic backgrounds.
The “parenting competence” tests, known as FKU (forældrekompetenceundersøgelse), were banned on people with Greenlandic backgrounds earlier this year after years of criticism by campaigners and human rights bodies, who argued successfully that the tests were racist because they were culturally unsuitable for people from Inuit backgrounds. As the law came into force in May, campaigners are asking why Brønlund was still subjected to a test.
Brønlund was told that her baby was removed because of the trauma she had suffered at the hands of her adoptive father, who is in prison for sexually abusing her. The municipality told her she was “not Greenlandic enough” for the new law banning the tests to apply, despite her being born in Greenland of Greenlandic parents.
Will, in their defense, the Danish are cunts… Oh, wait, that doesn’t help…
How about just giving everyone education on how to parent a child?
This is disgusting.
I can also see how such ‘tests’ can be used as a political tool to take away children from people who hold beliefs that the current power barons don’t like.
They…took her baby… because her own dad who is in prison abused her as a child.
What the absolute fuck.
The “parenting competence” tests, known as FKU
Fuck you seems like an appropriate name for such a grotesque thing.
Denmark has a long and horrifying history of this, and it’s overwhelmingly used against indigenous people.
Aah, parenting competence tests. The thing that SOUNDS like a good idea until you think about it for more than two seconds.
aka: repackaged eugenics.
Hmm I’m no ethics expert but I think you have to give that baby back Greenland. When this kind of thing happens I always try and fail to get in the mindset of the people who led to it. Someone flagged the case, discussed it with people, someone rubber stamped it.
And we here in Canada still ashamed of residential schools. You’d think other countries would have learned.
