Several Greenlanders have sued Denmark for compensation alleging they were unlawfully adopted by families between the 1950s and 1970s.
Lawyer Mads Pramming told the Danish radio station P1 on Friday that his clients’ parents assumed at the time that they would only temporarily entrust their children to a foster family. “They didn’t realize that this would last their entire lives and that they would never see their children again.”
Ask for money from the Danish state
Four of those affected, adopted by Danish families, are demanding a total of 250,000 kroner (about 33,500 euros) from the Danish state. They accuse authorities of allowing the adoptions despite full knowledge of the circumstances.
In 2020, the former head of social services in Greenland, Alfred Dam, compared the adoption of Greenlandic children by Danish families in the 1960s to ‘self-service’.
Signature sealed lot
“Adoption often went like this: the local doctor said to a woman: ‘You can’t take care of the child, you already have five.’ Why don’t you put him up for adoption?’ The woman then replied: ‘Monkey’ – Yes in Greenlandic. She was then told where to sign. She signed that she would never see her child again.”
In 2022, the Danish government made a historic decision promising compensation to six Inuit who were separated from their families in Greenland and deported to Denmark in 1951.
Source: Krone
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