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# J- W( r: Q4 i9 A8 V) o0 N8 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。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 n+ ~, x$ r& T; T i) z9 X2 F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.
- D# X# |) W- Qtvb 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."
( v, R' g9 B5 S+ j0 p6 U; _tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbIn 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. 5 q7 a- Y- V: f% ~
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2 }8 m7 I$ [2 P公仔箱論壇Stefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologist. C- U% Y1 \: s$ o$ L7 z/ l! |. w
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.
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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.' V0 K# f% _1 p0 |5 e; d. X! \; O' _5 l
When they get older, they are likely to have problems with trust and that will manifest itself in difficulties with relationships. |
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