Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother
by Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6SFJR)
Campaigners say psychometric tests are discriminatory amid protests over case of Keira Alexandra Kronvold
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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