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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 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 Inu...

Keira, a Greenlandic woman, was separated from her daughter Zammi, two hours after she was born, due to a controversial Danish parenting test that's now been scrqapped.

This is such an upsetting story, powerfully reported by @mirandeee.bsky.social

For Guardian Saturday magazine. Pictures by Juliette Pavy

“It’s like I’m living by my will,” said Keira, who has now been living apart from her daughter, who was placed with Danish foster parents, for nearly eight months

Keira is one of countless Greenlandic women in Denmark who have been separated from their children after undergoing highly controversial “parenting competency” tests (known as forældrekompetenceundersøgelse or FKU). The tests were banned for use on Greenlandic people in May but many remain separated

‘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. Will she win the fight to get Zammi back?

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

Pictures by Juliette Pavy

“It’s like I’m living by my will,” said Keira, who has had all three of her children removed by authorities after being subjected to FKU

A clinical psychologist who used to perform FKU for the Danish state told me they are almost impossible to pass. Questions can include “What is glass made of?” and “What is the name of the big staircase in Rome?”

‘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 Inu...

Went to Thisted, Denmark to interview Keira Alexandra Kronvold about being separated from her daughter, Zammi, by local authorities two hours after she was born
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