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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.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。0 O+ D3 L8 a3 C/ z! ]: y
"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."
) P* M1 t' t u% k" Q0 {In 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. 公仔箱論壇% C- T. T4 H# c% m6 R$ @* K _
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Stefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologisttvb now,tvbnow,bttvb0 ~' O9 z2 l1 \% p
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.
1 L9 C! }- f' I# l 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.
- P- H4 p" `* b2 c, q0 q Children taken into care may avoid forming a bond with their carers because they are afraid it would be a betrayal of their parent, and might mean their mother or father will not return for them.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。' `' `3 i$ a- _
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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