Give me my child back

把我的孩子还给我

The Documentary Podcast

2026-02-19

26 分钟
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Greenlandic parents across Denmark are fighting to be reunited with their children who were taken into care after authorities used ‘parenting competency tests’ as part of assessments to judge their ability to raise them. After banning the tests for use on Greenlandic people, the Danish government has now pledged to review around 300 cases where a child was forcibly removed from their parents. BBC World Service’s global health reporter Sofia Bettiza hears from those who argue what happened to them was cruel and unjust. She speaks to a Greenlandic mother and father who cannot visit their son anymore because he has been adopted by another family. The programme explores what these parenting competency tests are and why they were used in the first place. The Danish politician in charge of the review explains how their court system gets involved in making custody decisions and why it won’t be possible or appropriate to return every Greenlandic child to their biological parents.
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  • I'm Sofia Bettidza and you're listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

  • Outside parliament in the Danish capital Copenhagen, people have come from across the country,

  • holding photos of their sons and daughters, with signs saying, bring them home.

  • We're standing here together for it is the day of mourning.

  • You have lost many of your children.

  • You have lost many of your grandchildren.

  • Most of the parents here are originally from Greenland, a former Danish colony.

  • They say their children were unfairly taken from them.

  • Sami was taken from me two hours after I gave birth to her.

  • When they took her, I felt like everything became black.