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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 O+ u: v1 _$ O7 D
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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.
3 d: n6 I" l4 K- ]4 M"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."5.39.217.763 \! l: i# M6 p* `. S2 T% S e
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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3 {+ P" M! i* @5.39.217.76Stefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologist; c- L6 v) [! n
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 x0 i" i$ v9 V0 v' z
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.0 ]1 ]. e( y. F4 g* E
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.. ?9 g w# P5 x0 P
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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