Greenlandic Mothers in Denmark Fight to Get Children Back From Foster Care

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Greenlandic Mothers in Denmark Fight to Get Children Back From Foster Care

Bea Ferdinandsen Kaas held up her phone. The traditional Greenlandic tattoos on her fingers fanned out around the image of a child: her granddaughter.

She’s fighting to be able to raise the young girl, who she says was taken from her daughter by the police and a social worker soon after her birth in early 2025.

“I will always be hopeful, always. But I also know they already got her,” Kaas told The Epoch Times.

She choked up. Kaas—far from the granddaughter she loves—began to weep.

In 2025, Denmark eliminated a controversial parenting competency test for Greenlanders in Denmark. Greenlanders had long complained that the standardized test was culturally biased, causing too many of them to lose their children to foster care.

A year later, although some cases from the era of the parenting test are being slowly reviewed, many families remain separated from their children.

Many forced adoptions have taken place under an outgoing prime minister who advocated more of them in the name of protecting children from abuse and neglect.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of acquiring Greenland has raised the stakes further. That interest has helped to focus global attention on Greenland and an issue that some worry, and others hope, will fuel existing dissatisfaction with Danish rule.

Denmark and Greenland, though deeply intertwined, have a fraught history marked in decades past by the forced “Danization” of some young Greenlanders and a family planning campaign that forced contraception on thousands of Greenlandic women.

Many Greenlanders who spoke with The Epoch Times said they’re worried about American domination, saying the United States’ own record is far from perfect. Others described pressure against speaking positively of the United States or its leader.

Beyond the politics of a world in flux, there is simple, crushing loss—that of the mother who cannot hold her child.

“I miss my boy,” Gudrun Qunerseeq Maratse wrote in a text message to The Epoch Times soon after her infant was taken from her.

The Greenlanders who spoke with The Epoch Times believe the system has failed them. They worry their next generation will grow up deprived of both mothers and their mother language, Greenlandic.

In a country that leads many international rankings of the best places to raise kids, Greenlandic mothers are fighting to be reunited with their children.

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At thirty-seven, Ned Dougherty seemed to have it all: a Mercedes-Benz, a private jet, and a well-known nightclub in the Hamptons. Then he met death, and nothing was ever the same.

On July 2, 1984, after a fight with a business associate, Dougherty collapsed on the sidewalk. He felt like he was falling into a dark, endless pit. Medical records show he had respiratory and cardiac arrest and was clinically dead for an hour and six minutes. “I was literally dead in every sense of the word at that point,” Dougherty told The Epoch Times.

“And my journey on the other side began.”

According to Dougherty, his consciousness left his body, traveled into another dimension, and was enveloped in a brilliant golden light more resplendent than the sun, yet causing no pain.

Dougherty was suddenly joined by his deceased best friend, Daniel McCampbell, who had passed away during the Vietnam War. Daniel communicated to Dougherty, “I’m here to show you the way. You have a mission ahead of you in your life.”

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Luke 22:24-26 – God’s Kingdom: Developing Character Through Choice, Not Control

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(24) Now there was also a dispute among them, as to which of them should be considered the greatest. (25) And He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ (26) But not so among you; on the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves.
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God does not want anybody in His Kingdom who is only good at following orders. He wants sons and daughters who have taken on His values and character and made them their own so that they will always choose the right way of their own volition. His purpose requires that we be able to choose between life and death, blessing and cursing (Deuteronomy 30:19). If our every word and deed are regimented—whether by God or by a human government—then we do not develop character. Thus, God is working with us to help us make the right choices without having to be controlled externally.

The carnal mind, though, really only understands external control. In Christ’s teaching, He uses the Gentiles to exemplify those who do not know God, who govern by “exercising lordship” and “exercising authority.” Matthew’s account says that they “lord it over” the people.

Then Jesus declares that those who exercise authority in this way are called “benefactors.” The basic meaning of the Greek word is “a worker of good.” Lording authority over people could be considered “good” only in the sense that it enforces order and discipline rather than chaos. Yet, the real issue is how that order and discipline are brought about. If it is done in the Gentile way, it is achieved through force, coercion, oppressive legislation, threats, and fear. However, if God’s way is followed, order and discipline may take longer to accomplish, but they will endure because they come from within the people rather than being imposed on them.

Another way that “benefactor” can be understood is as “one who provides for another.” In collectivist political systems, the government is seen as the benefactor of the people because it “guarantees” things like jobs, food, healthcare, retirement, security, and so on, in return for allegiance. The Gentiles rule by causing the people to depend on them for everything, and they appear to be generous and benevolent by “giving” things back to the people.

In either application, Christ says, “but not so among you.” Recall that His teaching began with the disciples arguing over who was the greatest. They were focused on their position and their status—like those who do not know God—and Jesus had to direct them back to their responsibility. His instruction to those who would have authority in His church was to serve, not to rule.

The service of the church is geared toward helping the members toward “the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13). He clearly does not mean “serving” by establishing iron-fisted control and ruling the members by fear, nor does He mean “benevolently” doing for them what they can and should do for themselves. Both of those extremes stunt character development, leaving the people unprepared to live eternally. Instead, He means serving by applying those gifts that have been given for the edification of the body (verse 16), and not taking more authority than He has given.

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