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I'm Sophia Betteza 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 are standing here together, for it is the day of morning. 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.

People were made to take so-called parenting competency tests,

psychological assessments that contributed to hundreds of Greenlandic children

being removed from their families.

The way these tests are used is a scandal.

Last May, the tests were outlawed for use on Greenlanders.

Now, the Danish government says they're going to review hundreds of cases.

Some parents are being reunited with their children, but others have been told, for them, it's too late.

I never get to see his first steps, first word, his first school day.

Even for those whose children have been returned, there are profound and lasting consequences.

Are you afraid of losing your daughter again?

Every day.

I'm Sophia Bettiza, the World Service's Global Health Reporter.

I'm investigating why hundreds of Greenlandic children have been removed from their parents

and taken into care across Denmark.

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