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

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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.( s3 m2 K! y/ B1 m+ R2 B

: A. r6 j3 k1 A9 r1 @+ x6 Ctvb 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.
# l; Q( o6 d( S  u"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."
: O3 ~/ l) r& btvb 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. 7 {. _1 |7 n+ s3 n- ]
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Stefanos Alevizos - Greek psychologisttvb now,tvbnow,bttvb. L4 A4 {6 i  u( ^; h
        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.
4 I5 {" ~& i$ I: ]4 @( ros.tvboxnow.com        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.
' b7 _7 V$ K4 T3 Q8 ]公仔箱論壇        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.os.tvboxnow.com3 Z9 H$ P' @# U
        When they get older, they are likely to have problems with trust and that will manifest itself in difficulties with relationships.