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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$ Q2 C( w5 q1 }, n/ ~Greece's financial crisis has made some families so desperate they are giving up the most precious thing of all - their children. 7 h3 [2 b) X; Z4 z ITVBNOW 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。, t. r+ K2 B( u
One morning a few weeks before Christmas a kindergarten teacher in Athens found a note about one of her four-year-old pupils.: ?2 v% ]/ D+ ^. o
"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."" d+ D. w$ y0 O7 M2 J
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. tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb3 G( |/ D3 w6 @* X
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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.公仔箱論壇9 e5 {: o Y6 h. L6 v
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.5.39.217.76% I; z/ @* d B) h1 V
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. ' }+ ^- k; J3 h6 k* x, }7 }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。 When they get older, they are likely to have problems with trust and that will manifest itself in difficulties with relationships.
