[歐洲] Greek Parents too poor to Care for their Children

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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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7 @2 z% A4 f. f1 h+ V, p+ P7 B" n+ b公仔箱論壇One morning a few weeks before Christmas a kindergarten teacher in Athens found a note about one of her four-year-old pupils.4 w5 {+ B( Z. w4 q. q3 G7 ^
"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."
+ K9 k0 X& [# v% t( W2 E! TIn 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.
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* {* A6 q7 \" ]% U* D; y9 Stvb now,tvbnow,bttvbStefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologist
: L& S3 _8 }8 ]* u/ X8 ?  X; H        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.
2 w) x. T$ k: W/ A- `" ^- @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.
, d) |' \* m/ Q4 V4 m) Jtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb        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.( W9 ^) W, p" w. F) M
        When they get older, they are likely to have problems with trust and that will manifest itself in difficulties with relationships.