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.
26 Comments
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml · 50 pts · 345d
They...took her baby... because her own dad who is in prison abused her as a child.
What the absolute fuck.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 49 pts · 346d
Fuck you seems like an appropriate name for such a grotesque thing.
Eiri@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 345d
Aah, parenting competence tests. The thing that SOUNDS like a good idea until you think about it for more than two seconds.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 345d
aka: repackaged eugenics.
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 344d
To be clear, nobody is forbidding anyone from giving birth based on these tests.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 343d
was contraception a big part of eugenics in the past?
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 343d
Yes, I believe so. Are you implying there's some sort of contraception involved in this case?
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 343d
you pointed out that contraception was not involved when i suggested that all this was repackaged eugenics; so i'm asking you. lol
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 343d
As I understand eugenics, it's all about ensuring babies with "correct" genes are born and babies with "wrong" genes aren't, so yes, preventing pregnancies or births seem to be at the heart of eugenics.
And doesn't seem to directly appear in this story.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 343d
That sounds like a slight improvement to me
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 345d
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.
goatbeard@beehaw.org · 5 pts · 344d
Maybe you're missing the extreme prejudice/racism
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 344d
The baby was born in Denmark where the mother lives, so if it's given back, it's not given back to Greenland
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 345d
Denmark has a long and horrifying history of this, and it’s overwhelmingly used against indigenous people.
icystar@lemmy.cif.su · 9 pts · 345d
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.
hyacin@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 344d
Shhh, don't give big orange any ideas.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 344d
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."SuperCub@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 345d
How about just giving everyone education on how to parent a child?
AlwaysNurture@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 344d
Mandatory education, along with emotional intelligence classes
meliante@lemmy.pt · 5 pts · 345d
Well, in their defense, the Danish are cunts... Oh, wait, that doesn't help...
rarsamx@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 345d
And we here in Canada still ashamed of residential schools. You'd think other countries would have learned.
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 344d
These competence tests are being used on Danish parents as well, just to be clear. The law mentioned in the article is one that exempts the Inuit from being tested under the same conditions as other citizens in the kingdom.