Proteste come neonato si trasferì dalla madre della Groenlandia dopo i test di “competenza genitoriale”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/23/protests-as-newborn-removed-from-greenlandic-mother-after-parenting-competence-tests
di PeachCobblerAndCream
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I know people on Reddit joke about stuff like this, but I am shocked to learn a country in Europe actually has these sorts of tests to pull away newborns from kids. I get if this was some person with a past of sexual assault but just shakes my mind to think that this sort of ridiculous controlling policies exist at all.
To whoever replied and deleted, the law is Danish, not Greenlandish, so it is a European country’s law? Don’t think Geography matters?
”Among the tests listed are: the so-called WAIS test (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) IV, which tests parental IQ based on language comprehension, perception and memory; the Rorschach (Exner) test; the MCMI III (personality test); the RME (Reading the Mind in the Eyes), which tests the parents’ ability to interpret emotional expressions through pictures of faces; the PAI (mental and personality disorders); the LEAS (Levels of Emotional Awareness), which tests empathy and mentalisation skills. As the report states, all these tests are developed on a Western framework of norms and culture. Testing non-Western people without ‘extensive adaptations’ is deeply problematic.
Since the 1970s, several international studies have shown that IQ tests such as WAIS and WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) result in consistent misclassifications of Indigenous people (USA, Canada, Australia), framing them as ‘retarded’[8].”
[https://safi-network.org/blog/a-colonial-legacy/](https://safi-network.org/blog/a-colonial-legacy/)
“Removed” after one hour?? I can’t imagine the trauma.
Wtf
So she isn’t capable to care for the baby and the government takes the baby into custody so it doesn’t die – what is the problem here?
This feels more like a problem of execution than principle
It’s apparently about a young mother (18) with trauma from being sexually abused. She might have been born on Greenland, but has been adopted by Danish parents which moved to Denmark proper, so the authorities initially treated her as they would do any other Danish citizen.
technocratic savagery with colonial undertones
That woman was sexually abused by her now convicted adoptive father. It should be noted that being abused increases the possibility of postpartum depression, which in some cases has already resulted in neglect, abuses, violence or even the death of the child. It’s a extreme but sometimes necessary measure.
[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9660263/](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9660263/)
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213419303497](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213419303497)
This is the headline that makes you question humanity.
The greenlandic culture uses a lot of facial movements and body language to communicate. For some (cough spiral case cough) reason, the Danish still use this to claim greenlandic people aren’t capable of being parents and continue to steal children from their parents in order to make them the right culture. The boarding schools never ended in Denmark.
For context, the danish government stops createring new special test after Greenland asks Denmark. The new test was supposed to replace the controversial older test.
From Greenland side they do not want a work continue translate and adjust it to Greenland norm.
I can not find a English sources so I will post a danish (post thr 2025 15 July) instead.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/regeringen-dropper-saerlig-groenlandsk-foraeldreskabstest
It’s not really clear why they think she will be incapable of caring for the child. Is the mother of seriously below average intelligence? Does she have a serious mental condition? Is she developmentally disabled? Does she have a drug or alcohol problem? I appreciate there are privacy concerns, but this article tells us so little as to be utterly useless in terms of forming an opinion.
I care less about the fact that the Danish government used this test or her “history of prior trauma” than the more general question of – is she a danger to the baby? If so, how is she a danger?
This needs to be about the best interests of the baby and not the politics – and having worked in child protection, let me be extremely clear. Taking the child away immediately after birth and never returning it is sometimes the safest thing to do.
‘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.‘
What the fuck sort of bullshit is this. How is that not arbitrary abuse of power!?
Why they don’t just help those women. To take away their babies? That’s barbaric.
Page after page on how, why and what about this practice. : [https://www.sbst.dk/udgivelser](https://www.sbst.dk/udgivelser) — [https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvangsfjernelse_af_gr%C3%B8nlandske_b%C3%B8rn](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvangsfjernelse_af_gr%C3%B8nlandske_b%C3%B8rn)
Please keep in mind that the municipality that exercising authority can’t comment on a lot of what they’re doing. They have to keep confidence and can’t for example point out if they have any knowledge that would make their actions look reasonable to the public.
It’s an old subject and there’s a fuckton of research, writing and statistics on this. …. In danish.
[https://www.statistikbanken.dk/statbank5a/SelectTable/Omrade0.asp?PLanguage=1](https://www.statistikbanken.dk/statbank5a/SelectTable/Omrade0.asp?PLanguage=1)
Use the path: social conditions -> social support services -> disadvantaged children and young people.
To find statistics on the area, it’s in english.
I needed to unboggle my mind before l could comment. This is an absolute atrocity, this young mother is going through hell because her baby was taken from her. Not one if us should care about traditions if it means such horrible things are happening to innocent people.
Reminds me of thr story of the Norwegians taking a baby from an indisn family cause she fed baby with hands or co slept with baby.
Think north america is best they just interfer in extreme cases the nanny state people
…meanwhile in America, it’s off to the races for those folks.
I know its a serious topic but people, the test is called… FKU
Even if we take aside all the racist implications, why on Earth is this a thing at all? I know it’s probably right up the ally for some redditors but I am in shock right now. Are people not seeing the dystopian implications such a law could have?
At most parents deemed emotional unstable should be monitored. Agents could visit regularly to make sure the children are fine. Even that I am not sure about but taking children away preemptively, traumatizing the parents and robing the children of a chance to live with their actual parents is absolutely barbaric. WTF
This is a country with a history of eugenics. I wouldn’t exactly trust them. Some of the most “progressive” countries in Northern Europe had eugenics programmes many decades after they got a bad name in the rest of the world, post nazi Germany
Please, let’s not jump to conclusions! (As the internet usually does)
Eugenics is alive and well.