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Mother Has Newborn Baby Taken Away Hours After Birth for Failing Controversial 'Parenting Competency' Test

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen attended a ceremony to apologize to six Greenlandic Inuit who were separated from their families more than 70 years ago to take part in an experiment to build a Danish-speaking elite, at the National Museum in Copenhagen on March 9, 2022. (Credit: LISELOTTE SABROE/Getty Images)

A Greenlandic mother in Denmark had her newborn baby taken away just hours after giving birth for failing a "parenting competency test" that critics claim discriminates against Greenlandic parents.

Keira Alexandra Kronvold, 38, whose first language is Kalaallisut, was subjected to the test conducted in Danish during her pregnancy. Danish authorities removed her newborn daughter on November 7, allowing her only one monitored hour of visitation per week, The Guardian reported. Kronvold has previously lost custody of two other children, reportedly after taking a similar parenting test in 2014.

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