Children are now being abandoned by their parents because they supposedly cannot afford to take care of them.
LINK (posted at The Drudge Report)
Children are being abandoned on Greece's streets by their poverty-stricken families who cannot afford to look after them any more.
Youngsters are being dumped by their parents who are struggling to make ends meet in what is fast becoming the most tragic human consequence of the Euro crisis.
This is, of course, utter bullsh*t.
Athens' Ark of the World youth centre said four children, including a newborn baby, had been left on its doorstep in recent months.
One mother, it said, ran away after handing over her two-year-old daughter Natasha.
Four-year-old Anna was found by a teacher clutching a note that read: 'I will not be coming to pick up Anna today because I cannot afford to look after her. Please take good care of her. Sorry.'
And another desperate mother, Maria, was forced to give up her eight-year-old daughter Anastasia after losing her job.
She looked for work for more than a year, having to leave her child at home for hours at a time, and lived off food handouts from the local church.
She said: 'Every night I cry alone at home, but what can I do? It hurt my heart, but I didn’t have a choice.' She now works in a cafe but only make £16 per day and so cannot afford to take her daughter back.
I think that (if this is actually true and I'm not sure that it is) this illustrates what happens in a cradle to grave socialist utopia when the economy goes south...people who have been conditioned to believe that someone else will always take care of everything buck human nature and instinct, tossing maternalism/paternalism out the window.
I cannot fathom abandoning a child for any reason.
You would think (from reading this story and accepting what is written as truth) that Greece is surrounded by high walls and barbed wire and that you can't just leave and look for better conditions elsewhere. If I were to find myself without work and no prospect of work in my community then I would leave and find it somewhere else.
There is always a plan B. Or C. Or whatever. But perhaps not if you are trained to depend on someone or something other than yourself.
I am highly suspicious of this story but if it is true then it is a heck of an indictment on European socialism and its consequences for human behavior modification.
