Tag: Greenland

Sorthvidt halvprotræt med en ung mor med fletninger og hendes barn på ryggen

Danish eugenic tradition: Removing the inuit children and giving them to Danish foster parents

Brutal removal of inuit children to Danish foster parents is still  a tradition in Denmark. ‘   On 24 October, a Greenlandic woman local municipality authority  in Denmark decided that her child, when it would later be born, should be handed over to the anxiously waiting foster parents, who apparently had no qualms about that procedure, shortly after birth. Thus,…