These laws can never be a good thing. The door to abuse is too easy to open with them.
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Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests
(www.theguardian.com)
Racism and indoctrination are two results I can think of from this. I cannot think of any examples of good outcomes when the state systematically takes children from their parents.
I cannot think of any examples of good outcomes when the state systematically takes children from their parents.
It's often profitable. Have you not considered the perspective of the money?
SLASHSARCASM
"Corporations are people, my friend!"
Even if they're only applied with good intentions, it's still so obviously wrong.
The “parenting competence” tests, known as FKU
Fuck you too.
I'm sure there's a King Leopold conservative somewhere saying, "serves her right or some shit."
Conservatives worldwide can get bent.
"She deserved to get raped at 17 by her step father"
“She probably committed some grave sin in her previous life.” — religious leaders of my childhood
Ah yes.. Let’s increase your childhood trauma with government approved trauma for you and your newborn baby. Because you didn’t follow a rule that we just made up, your newborn will have attachment issues, stress, development delays and feeding difficulties.
And sure our municipality has admitted to faults in its processes and said it was seeking to ensure the family’s legal requirements were met and “the best possible solution” for the family. We just don’t keep it simple and give your baby back.
We will need to “think” about it for weeks or months, since our brains aren’t capable of processing the consequences of our actions , rules or immoral decision making. “We just follow orders”. So you just have to wait till the baby is 2 years old or something, idk #yolo. Welcome to hell. Aka the "banality of evil” by Hannah Arendt.
My first thought too, who tf thinks its a good idea to remove a newborn from their mother for something like that??
The most critical period for skin to skin contact: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/12578-kangaroo-care
Brønlund was told that her baby was removed because of the trauma she had suffered at the hands of her adoptive father, who is in prison for sexually abusing her. The municipality told her she was “not Greenlandic enough” for the new law banning the tests to apply, despite her being born in Greenland of Greenlandic parents.
What the actual fuck? I wasn't understanding this... Still not sure if I am bc it seems so incomprehensible.
They took her newborn baby bc she (the mother) was a victim of sexual abuse? Wtf is the logic behind that?
Maybe it's the myth that people who experienced abuse as kids will themselves become abusers. It's bullshit. Sure, some do, but the majority just deal with their trauma as best they can and are regular people.
I could see giving the assessment to act as something like a screener for post partum anxiety/depression risk.
I have no idea if that was the reasoning, but even then it seems like the way to move forward when you know someone is at risk, is to offer inpatient or outpatient resources. Then continue to follow up with more screeners. Just taking a newborn baby away is bad for both the mother and child's physical and mental health.
I feel so much anger just thinking about her situation, and all the maternal instincts that you feel leading up to and after giving birth. That sounds like a nightmare.
Brønlund told the Guardian: “I didn’t want to go into labour because I knew what would happen afterwards. I would keep my baby nearby me when she was in my stomach, that was the closest I would be with her. It was a very rough and horrible time.”
She said her first meeting with her daughter, earlier this week, was cut short early because the baby was believed to be overtired and overstimulated.
“My heart broke when she [the supervisor] stopped the time. I was so sad, I cried out to the car and in the car. It was so fast that we had to leave,” she said, through tears. “My heart is so broken, I don’t know what to do without her.”
Holy fuck, well if you weren't traumatized before you are now, and we made sure trauma has a head start to continue on to the next generation.
How could this ever be a reasonable idea, regardless of this mother's heritage.
There are a huge number of people who are or will be terrible parents who definitely should not have had kids.
But I don't know of any way the government can positively address that, outside of actual child abuse.
It's one thing to say someone is a terrible parent who ought not to have had children, it's a whole other thing to prevent someone from having children either before or after birth.
Colonizers stealing babies to raise them white is a story older than I am.
I like to tell people that Canada closed the last indigenous school in 1996 and issued a formal apology for the years of kidnapping children and indoctrinating them to be white.
Do you know when the US closed the last Indian Schools? They didn't.
"tests, known as FKU (forældrekompetenceundersøgelse)"
Tests known as "fuck you, we're taking your baby."
Ordinarily I'm against random acronyms, but in this case...
This is some racist shit
Happiest place in the world...
Denmark is consistently ranked as one of the happiest countries in the world, often coming in second place, just behind Finland, according to the World Happiness Report. Factors contributing to this happiness include strong social support, trust, and a high quality of life
LMFAO
Ha 4chan chud. Get ‘em gravylicious