‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children
Miranda Bryant in Thisted
Sun 29 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT
Sun 29 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT
‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children
Two hours after Keira Alexandra Kronvold gave birth, her daughter was taken from her – the third child to be removed from her care following a now-banned assessment that disproportionately targets Inuit women in Denmark.Miranda Bryant (The Guardian)
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davel
in reply to Peter Link • • •Danish Jim Crow laws.
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.
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The answer is the Spanish Steps.
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stairs in Rome, Italy
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in reply to davel • • •Not surprising that Denmark has these types of new tbh. They even have a fucking ghetto law.
That family guy image never fails lmao
Danish term for districts with social problems
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)SoyViking [he/him]
in reply to 𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥 • • •If you want to become a naturalised Danish citizen, one of the hoops you have to jump through is to pass a multiple choice trivia quiz with questions such as:
- What demographic did the "Radical Left" party represent when it was founded in 1905? (Smallholders)
- When was "the Christian Danish church" founded (the Viking age)
- What person was associated with the folk high school movement in the 19th century (NFS Grundtvig)
Some of the questions requires participants to parrot state propaganda, such as answering that Greenland ceased to be a colony in 1953.
It is deeply unserious.
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in reply to SoyViking [he/him] • • •lmfao
I always knew denmark was problematic in tons of ways but holy shit this blows, my condolences for living there lol
SoyViking [he/him]
in reply to 𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥 • • •Another hoop you have to jump through in order to become a citizen is that you have to give the local mayor a handshake (skin-to-skin contact legally required). This is considered so important that it was upheld even at the height of COVID.
The reason for this bizarre rule is that chuds convicted themselves that shaking the hand of a woman was some kind of cryptonite to scary "Islamists". But the mayor is more likely to be a man than a woman, you say. Yes. That is true. It is ridiculous even on its own terms.
piyuv
in reply to Peter Link • • •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”.
Samsuma
in reply to Peter Link • • •ParadoxSeahorse
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