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Greece's financial crisis has made some families so desperate they are giving up the most precious thing of all - their children.
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One morning a few weeks before Christmas a kindergarten teacher in Athens found a note about one of her four-year-old pupils.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb" `8 ]; O+ e" \
"I will not be coming to pick up Anna today because I cannot afford to look after her," it read. "Please take good care of her. Sorry. Her mother."
$ o& L' k# u5 I5 @$ H/ fIn the last two months Father Antonios, a young Orthodox priest who runs a youth centre for the city's poor, has found four children on his doorstep - including a baby just days old. Another charity was approached by a couple whose twin babies were in hospital being treated for malnutrition, because the mother herself was malnourished and unable to breastfeed. Cases like this are shocking a country where family ties are strong, and failure to look after children is socially unacceptable - they feel to Greeks like stories from the Third World, rather than their own capital city. 5.39.217.76' G) _: C5 F: [% }' M
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- D" \: P2 x* S. s. ftvb now,tvbnow,bttvbStefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologist
0 I7 d4 n9 [" C5 Z. ^6 @5.39.217.76 Parents who are not able to provide for their child will feel despair, loneliness and anger. They will carry an enormous weight of cultural stigma and shame.
\ d" }9 @6 f; w公仔箱論壇 Children absorb the emotions of their parents, so the child will internalise all the feelings of their parent - particularly guilt. Often they feel they are to blame.
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When they get older, they are likely to have problems with trust and that will manifest itself in difficulties with relationships. |
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