simply being Greenlandic will be enough to get the attention of social workers.

The tests cover attachment, personality traits, cognitive abilities and psychopathology, and take about 15-20 hours. It is almost impossible to pass them, says Nellemann; even he and his colleagues have failed to do so.

I remember reading about this late last year, and I remember not trusting that social worker or the process one bit.
I once watched a documentary about this kind of "social service" and some of their methods are 100% unscientific, and don't take personality traits or just moods into account, like whether a person is extro- or introvert. I even posted about it on feddit.dk, but was met with much skepticism. One of the things I saw, was that if a baby doesn't seek eye contact with a stranger holding it, it should be a sign that the mother doesn't give the baby enough attention! Yes really it's that stupid! When obviously it's more likely the baby doesn't appreciate a stranger.

I can't put into words how much I despise that kind of quackery! Because that's what it is.
But quackery is unfortunately standard procedure in social services. And social services even trump real doctors, meaning quackery trumps real doctors by law!!
Quackery is illegal in Denmark, except in social services where it's an everyday phenomenon.

After recoiling in horror and delving in, it does appear that they have stopped using this test as of January this year (search: Denmark FKU). I don't know if this woman has gotten her children back but its clear a lot of damage has been done already. Hardline institutional racism always make me wonder what is so upsetting as to justify such blind and heinous cruelties. It doesn't seem natural, to predate on your own species.

As a Canadian, all I can say is "hey wait a minute, I've seen this one before!"

I'm shocked this sorta shit still happens in 2025, how did this come into being? Thus might be a rabbit hole I go down, who founded this program, who vetted it, etc

Racist colonialist shit. They did the exact same thing to Inuit and First Nations women and babies here in Canada.

Absolutely disgusting... Completely biased and clearly racist test. Fucking fascists everywhere...

And here I thought the US was the one that treated our indigenous citizens like crap

Danish Jim Crow laws.

“What is the name of the big staircase in Rome?”

I don’t know, and I spent a week in Rome. This is a wypipo pop-culture trivia question that has fuck-all to do with parenting.

Keira is one of countless Greenlandic women in Denmark who have been separated from their children after undergoing highly controversial “parenting competency” tests (known as forældrekompetenceundersøgelse or FKU) used by social services to assess whether parents are suitable to care for their children.

What the flying fuck. She doesn’t speak Danish and wasn’t provided a translator for the test, resulting in her 3 children to be “removed”.

Oh look another genocide of indigenous people

why is stealing babies such a common pastime amongst the kolonial konquest klub jfc

Absolutely chilling wtf