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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.
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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.
5 H6 K: z; a L" ~7 S% @/ s# P. ytvb 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."
$ H& `+ B, V2 A9 }+ `7 s+ zIn 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. 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。+ z; W8 y' r! G+ T5 e# s2 ]
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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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb4 g& Z8 s, Q q/ Z" R" j5 ?
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.
+ I" y& |5 y. o) b# F, F5.39.217.76 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& G8 H7 _2 k/ s9 {; n2 o0 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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