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    ‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children | Parents and parenting


    ‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children | Parents and parenting

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    1. CoolCombination3527 on

      >Questions can include “What is glass made of?” and “What is the name of the big staircase in Rome?”

      What in the Jim Crow voter literacy test

      Edit:

      >What they deemed “mistakes” started to pile up, and they would bring them up months later. These, she says, could be anything from the way she spoke to Zoe at dinner to her not wanting her daughter to walk home alone from school when she was eight years old. “Nice and quiet, collecting your mistakes,” says Keira. “It was frightening, scary. I was always nervous. I always felt pressure.”

      I’m sorry, she was considered a bad parent by the government for **NOT** wanting her 8 year old to walk home alone???!?!

    3. Newworldrevolution on

      What the fuck Denmark. So, I understand taking kids away from abusive parents. But what the fuck, who thought that having a standardized test for people to keep their children or not was a good idea. Not only could that be used as a tool to target immigrants/ethnic minorities but it could also be abused by a abuser clever enough to game the system in order to keep their victims with them. I can think of so many ways this could be a bad idea.

    6. Stormgeddon on

      Native Populations Being Treated Poorly by Europeans and their Descendants, Vol. 548

      I honestly think immigration plays a role in alleviating these sorts of issues. Humans are so intrinsically intolerant that new arrivals make them realise they actually have a lot in common with the people they’ve been coexisting with and discriminating against for centuries.

      Not to throw shade, but there’s a reason Canada and Australia have at least somewhat acknowledged that this sort of shit is bad, and places like Denmark haven’t, and I don’t think it’s simply a broader anglosphere culture of tolerance bleeding through. It may not be strictly immigration, but I doubt it hurts.

    7. scndnvnbrkfst on

      >**‘**Now your two hours begin.’ The countdown started when Keira Alexandra Kronvold had just given birth in the early hours of 7 November 2024. Keira, 38, was originally granted just one hour with her daughter, Zammi, before her baby was to be removed from her and taken to foster parents – but the midwife begged authorities to give them more time.
      …
      A woman came to collect the baby from hospital. After handing over the bag, Keira kissed Zammi. “I made a promise that I was going to fight for her,” she says. “I promised her I would send her flowers every week. I promised her that she will come home soon.” After Zammi was taken away, Keira lay on the bed for a long time crying, her body shaking while the midwife gave her stitches. The midwife invited Keira to stay the night in hospital, but she couldn’t bear to. So she went home alone, with just a box containing her placenta, congratulations messages pouring in from well-wishers, who did not know Keira would be forced to part from her baby so quickly**,** while at the opposite end of town Zammi, still just hours old, met her foster parents for the first time.

      One of the most gut-wrenching things I’ve ever read. A single hour, and then the government takes your baby away. The only reason this would ever be acceptable is if the safety of the child is at risk, and that’s plainly not the case here. Completely and utterly barbaric.

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