[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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5 ]  t1 |7 {7 D3 C; ~; j; }9 x5.39.217.76One morning a few weeks before Christmas a kindergarten teacher in Athens found a note about one of her four-year-old pupils.
. f0 b* L& A/ o1 a/ q5 j& H9 vtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb"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."
6 B1 g! d. E" ?& p6 N% b( PTVBNOW 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。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.
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1 O) J) S' b" D, Q公仔箱論壇Stefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologisttvb now,tvbnow,bttvb& o9 d9 \% C1 u* V  z
        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 Q3 F! }% \, l% b; E+ GTVBNOW 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。        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.
: h0 Y( w9 U) v& N  ytvb 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.
6 y( n, k7 V2 C) {' n0 i9 K( t        When they get older, they are likely to have problems with trust and that will manifest itself in difficulties with relationships.