About this episode

The episode discusses the ongoing struggle of Greenlandic mothers in Denmark to reunite with their children who were placed in foster care due to a controversial parenting competency test.

A controversial test of parenting competency that put many Greenlanders’ kids in foster care was dropped in 2025. But parents and kids remain separated. Read the original report here.

Topics covered

• parenting
• foster care
• Greenland
• Denmark
• child welfare
• separation
• competency tests

Keywords

• Greenlandic mothers
• Denmark
• foster care
• parenting competency
• child separation
• 2025
• child welfare

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Places: Greenland, Denmark

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