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

simply being Greenlandic will be enough to get the attention of social workers.

The tests cover attachment, personality traits, cognitive abilities and psychopathology, and take about 15-20 hours. It is almost impossible to pass them, says Nellemann; even he and his colleagues have failed to do so.

I remember reading about this late last year, and I remember not trusting that social worker or the process one bit.
I once watched a documentary about this kind of "social service" and some of their methods are 100% unscientific, and don't take personality traits or just moods into account, like whether a person is extro- or introvert. I even posted about it on feddit.dk, but was met with much skepticism. One of the things I saw, was that if a baby doesn't seek eye contact with a stranger holding it, it should be a sign that the mother doesn't give the baby enough attention! Yes really it's that stupid! When obviously it's more likely the baby doesn't appreciate a stranger.

I can't put into words how much I despise that kind of quackery! Because that's what it is.
But quackery is unfortunately standard procedure in social services. And social services even trump real doctors, meaning quackery trumps real doctors by law!!
Quackery is illegal in Denmark, except in social services where it's an everyday phenomenon.

After recoiling in horror and delving in, it does appear that they have stopped using this test as of January this year (search: Denmark FKU). I don't know if this woman has gotten her children back but its clear a lot of damage has been done already. Hardline institutional racism always make me wonder what is so upsetting as to justify such blind and heinous cruelties. It doesn't seem natural, to predate on your own species.

As a Canadian, all I can say is "hey wait a minute, I've seen this one before!"

I'm shocked this sorta shit still happens in 2025, how did this come into being? Thus might be a rabbit hole I go down, who founded this program, who vetted it, etc

And here I thought the US was the one that treated our indigenous citizens like crap