標題: [歐洲] Greek Parents too poor to Care for their Children [打印本頁] 作者: kimmi8k 時間: 2012-1-11 05:57 AM 標題: 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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb: R8 \' \5 }$ Y+ u0 I
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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& ?, a: t/ x+ X7 x. i$ b9 J
"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." ! f1 |4 E8 |; AIn 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. 2 ^+ r' ]* k e# t, ~) u- CTVBNOW 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。 9 x: V; h& k" V/ V; g& ]6 rTVBNOW 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。 - a% t4 l8 R4 X" D5 \1 JStefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologist % S H4 b" o3 g3 s; I9 A6 m5 Y5.39.217.76 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.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。! d+ ^- w' ^+ G' }/ z P/ I
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% o, M7 I& Z0 ?& S/ s% \公仔箱論壇 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. & w$ ~8 ^0 o Q1 X: ] When they get older, they are likely to have problems with trust and that will manifest itself in difficulties with relationships.
