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.
They…took her baby… because her own dad who is in prison abused her as a child.
What the absolute fuck.
The “parenting competence” tests, known as FKU
Fuck you seems like an appropriate name for such a grotesque thing.
Aah, parenting competence tests. The thing that SOUNDS like a good idea until you think about it for more than two seconds.
aka: repackaged eugenics.
To be clear, nobody is forbidding anyone from giving birth based on these tests.
was contraception a big part of eugenics in the past?
Yes, I believe so. Are you implying there’s some sort of contraception involved in this case?
you pointed out that contraception was not involved when i suggested that all this was repackaged eugenics; so i’m asking you. lol
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.
That sounds like a slight improvement to me
Denmark has a long and horrifying history of this, and it’s overwhelmingly used against indigenous people.
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?
And we here in Canada still ashamed of residential schools. You’d think other countries would have learned.
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.
