I'm worried that Greenland will be taken away...Denmark Abandoned Controversial Policy When Trump took office [Now News]

Denmark has announced that it will scrap the so-called "Parent Competency Assessment," which Greenlanders, the self-governing territory, have long protested.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Facebook on Tuesday that the Danish and Greenland governments had agreed to discard standardized psychological evaluations of children with Greenlandic backgrounds.

The psychological evaluation mentioned by Prime Minister Frederiksen is a Danish parental competency evaluation called the "FKU," which is conducted by specialized agencies entrusted by each local government and conducts intelligence and psychological tests on parents.

If parents are evaluated as "undercompetent," such as low intelligence, the child is reportedly forced to be adopted by another Danish family or admitted to a nursery.

Although the policy was introduced in the name of child protection, it was implemented in Danish and without taking into account cultural differences among the Inuit, which make up the majority of Greenland's population, and has criticized it as a policy of discrimination and colonial assimilation.

Statistics for 2022 showed that the percentage of children forced to separate parents and children through FKU was 1% for Danish, compared to 5.6% for Greenlanders.

In particular, in November last year, a Greenlandic woman was forcibly separated from her newborn two hours after passing through FKU.

The Danish government's sudden decision to scrap the policy, which has been maintained despite long-standing opposition from Greenlanders, is interpreted as a move to embrace Greenland's public sentiment in consideration of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has vowed to purchase Greenland.

Prime Minister Frederiksen also posted a Facebook post hours before Trump's inauguration.

Earlier in his inauguration speech, President Trump repeatedly vowed to "take back" the Panama Canal, but Greenland did not directly mention it for now.



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