Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after 'parenting competence' test
No, she hasn't failed some sort of test of how good a parent she'll be. It has to do with the fact that she herself was sexually abused by her adoptive father, and so had suffered trauma, and they didn't think she was 'Greenlandic enough', even though she is Inuit, born in Greenland, of Greenlandic parents, though living in Denmark, to qualify under a law that expressly forbids this standardised test from being used. She is being punished for being traumatised in the past, yet again, and they whisked her child away after an hour. She's allowed to see her baby once a fortnight. This is incredulous. I don't want to hear anything at all about how the Danish system is so much better than ours again. That may be true in many ways, but at least in this case, this is out and out racist.
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