[歐洲] Greek Parents too poor to Care for their Children

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) c/ F/ I4 j4 d' R+ T: A  \, FGreece'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.
- h6 K4 j2 U; S! htvb 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."
# y4 z2 F  }. x& [3 i" c7 X公仔箱論壇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. 7 Z( A$ ^* F9 S& T8 y2 L

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0 L' M. k  c" x, W7 V3 t' D. Q公仔箱論壇Stefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologist
6 _$ x% L) k0 h% Y        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,bttvb6 b; S* G7 r8 m
        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.
3 O5 B5 L+ O, F% r; u; f. c" Mtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb        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.5.39.217.76/ d, |, }- [( e8 Y% x) h
        When they get older, they are likely to have problems with trust and that will manifest itself in difficulties with relationships.