They...took her baby... because her own dad who is in prison abused her as a child.

What the absolute fuck.

Aah, parenting competence tests. The thing that SOUNDS like a good idea until you think about it for more than two seconds.

The “parenting competence” tests, known as FKU

Fuck you seems like an appropriate name for such a grotesque thing.

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.

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 barons don't like.

At first I was outrage by this: forældrekompetenceundersøgelse. Then I read this sentence: "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."

How about just giving everyone education on how to parent a child?

Denmark has a long and horrifying history of this, and it’s overwhelmingly used against indigenous people.

Well, in their defense, the Danish are cunts... Oh, wait, that doesn't help...

And we here in Canada still ashamed of residential schools. You'd think other countries would have learned.

The “parenting competence” tests, known as FKU

Fuck you too.

These laws can never be a good thing. The door to abuse is too easy to open with them.

How could this ever be a reasonable idea, regardless of this mother's heritage.

I'm sure there's a King Leopold conservative somewhere saying, "serves her right or some shit."

Conservatives worldwide can get bent.

Ah yes.. Let’s increase your childhood trauma with government approved trauma for you and your newborn baby. Because you didn’t follow a rule that we just made up, your newborn will have attachment issues, stress, development delays and feeding difficulties.

And sure our municipality has admitted to faults in its processes and said it was seeking to ensure the family’s legal requirements were met and “the best possible solution” for the family. We just don’t keep it simple and give your baby back.

We will need to “think” about it for weeks or months, since our brains aren’t capable of processing the consequences of our actions , rules or immoral decision making. “We just follow orders”. So you just have to wait till the baby is 2 years old or something, idk #yolo. Welcome to hell. Aka the "banality of evil” by Hannah Arendt.

Colonizers stealing babies to raise them white is a story older than I am.

I like to tell people that Canada closed the last indigenous school in 1996 and issued a formal apology for the years of kidnapping children and indoctrinating them to be white.

Do you know when the US closed the last Indian Schools? They didn't.

IMO you shouldn't be allowed to have kids until you've proven you can raise them to live a healthy life in our society.

I'm done letting just a creampie be the test for parenthood.

If we want to responsibly control our populations to be sustainable then we have to transition to a different system of checks and balances for population.

"tests, known as FKU (forældrekompetenceundersøgelse)"

Tests known as "fuck you, we're taking your baby."

Ordinarily I'm against random acronyms, but in this case...

This is some racist shit

Happiest place in the world...

Denmark is consistently ranked as one of the happiest countries in the world, often coming in second place, just behind Finland, according to the World Happiness Report. Factors contributing to this happiness include strong social support, trust, and a high quality of life

LMFAO

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.

This is batshit crazy that this law exists at all. Inuit issues aside.

Ffs. This is appalling

What's with this fash headlines, theguardian‽ Here, one 5YOCC:

Fascist state abducts baby of indigenous women again, Greenland folks erupt a protest.

The Danes are playing with fire. This is nothing new to native people or North America, but it IS new to greedy countries that want to take over Greenland for the shipping lanes as global warming melts the ice. Countries with leaders that don't give a shit about laws. Denmark won't get unilateral support against annexation with shitty racist laws like this gumming up the works.

I want to know what's on the test.

Here's a study if anyone wants a deep dive. Just don't feel like it ATM.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8317938/

Colonialism is alive and strong in 2025.