Posted on 01/21/2025 11:41:39 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
The Danish government has announced that Greenlandic families will no longer be required to undergo the ‘forældrekompetenceundersøgelse’ (FKU), a parental competency test used to determine whether parents are deemed fit to raise their children. While the test is reportedly easy to pass, it poses significant challenges for Greenlanders who are not fluent in Danish and includes cultural biases. Children can be removed from their parents if they fail the test.
The test assesses parents on various aspects of their lives, including how they react to certain situations, their self-perception, whether they have any physical or mental health issues, their outlook on life, and their future plans. “The main test was developed based on Western norms, which can lead to misunderstandings and prejudice,” the Danish Institute for Human Rights has warned.
The data supports these concerns. According to a 2022 report cited by The Guardian, 5.6% of children of Greenlandic origin living in Denmark are placed in foster care, compared to just 1% of Danish-origin children. “The tests do not account for potential language barriers or cultural differences, putting Greenlandic parents at risk of being unfairly assessed in child custody cases,” explains Louise Holck, director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
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No wonder the majority of Greenlanders want to become US citizens!............
I’ll help you; this source has Greenland with a higher average IQ than the US overall: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country
For sure. I’ll bet they could make a fortune with ski resorts, casinos, cruises, amateur prospecting, winter sports, etc.
Are you sure we’d want them? They tend to vote liberal.
I just goes to show that Europeans DO NOT think like Americans...and fascism and overreach are the default positions of just about every government.
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Yes, the default position of some and perhaps even the majority, but there are exceptions, mainly eastern and southern countries.
These children would be above average IQ in many of our US Cities.
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Astute observation!
Denmarks days are numbered since muslims are overtaking their culture now that they have the vote.
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All the more reason to get the Greenlanders out from under Denmark’s control. It looks like the Danes and Muslims are not that far apart on their totalitarian mindset with regard to dictating family life and values.
In Scotland it’s even worse. They assign a SOCIAL WORKER to follow the child from birth through high school and so if a parent misbehaves (by whatever definition they choose to use), then the real parents can be ‘talked to’ and if the parents don’t start to behave (again, by their definition of behave), the kid can be taken from them.
As worse or even worse than having kids in the Soviet Union or Mao’s China, from what I can tell.
You mean all of them can write their own name? What about addition? Can they add? Ours can’t.
“Greenland is a territory of Denmark”
A colony of Denmark where Denmark has been dictating who can and can’t be a father you mean?
thanks!
Iceland was a territory of Denmark too, until the US occupied it to keep the Nazis out. They then voted for independence.
57.3% doesn’t sound ‘overwhelming’.
As of 2019, the only known Muslim living in Greenland is Lebanese citizen Wassam Azaqeer, who lives in Nuuk, where he runs a restaurant.
When we talk about government bureaucrats having a 'god complex', this sort of thing is a prime example.
If it was an election it would be!....................
“Spell ‘forældrekompetenceundersøgelse’ and use in a sentence.”
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