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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother

Keira Alexandra Kronvold and her baby
Keira Alexandra Kronvold and her baby, who has been removed from her by the local municipality. Photograph: supplied

Denmark is under pressure to stop subjecting Greenlandic people to “parenting competency” tests that campaigners say discriminate against them, amid uproar over the case of a mother whose baby was removed two hours after she gave birth.

The psychometric tests are widely used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations into new parents, and have long been criticised by human rights bodies as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities.

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