The Right to a Father

In the '40s and '50s many men from Denmark traveled to Greenland to work. Here they met Greenlandic womenwhich more than once resulted in pregnancies. Many of these men then returned to Denmark, which meant that the children grew up as illegitimate children without even knowing their fathers. One of these children was Anne Sofie Hardenberg, who was teased all through her childhood for having a Danish fatherand an absent one at that. By the age of 17 she gathered the courage to write to her ...