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. 5 E3 ]% X# b' K0 ~8 I- k r8 _5.39.217.76 $ r. x- o% I$ J( oOne morning a few weeks before Christmas a kindergarten teacher in Athens found a note about one of her four-year-old pupils.- i& w* K. p, T; B$ N+ `& e9 h
"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."5 S0 _; `& v& D; {
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. ! @1 o+ S: z; P3 }. ~# qtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb , [$ F: }1 ?) V1 B4 K+ M; x- I公仔箱論壇公仔箱論壇1 Q& \: n' G( ?+ q" b Stefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologisttvb now,tvbnow,bttvb2 M4 S4 {6 r) s4 L# j) V
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.9 C& E2 @4 `( k# b$ O" x
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. " \5 r4 }$ Z" t! M 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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb; H: D# |' i7 L, f$ O
When they get older, they are likely to have problems with trust and that will manifest itself in difficulties with relationships.
