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

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7 s/ E$ l6 N& H6 O; _; H6 R7 Dtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbGreece'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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! ~3 K! ]# a' p7 M$ Itvb now,tvbnow,bttvbOne morning a few weeks before Christmas a kindergarten teacher in Athens found a note about one of her four-year-old pupils.
+ A! G3 [5 I6 Z  j$ c公仔箱論壇"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."公仔箱論壇+ \6 e6 B4 b/ @
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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) R7 [+ u" s3 X! U& fStefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologist
/ R# U" p& ?7 f% N! e+ I; ]) Q0 `1 |0 Yos.tvboxnow.com        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.
3 z/ Y; a% p) F% L        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.
( f& K* R0 |. T4 S3 `+ b8 M8 ?- zos.tvboxnow.com        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.+ G/ I8 `' p1 |8 _! t
        When they get older, they are likely to have problems with trust and that will manifest itself in difficulties with relationships.