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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.
It comes as pharmacists revealed the country had almost run out of aspirin, as multi-billion euro austerity measures filter their way through society.
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.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085163/Children-dumped-streets-Greek-parents-afford-them.html#ixzz1jHYw0RaD
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Brother_Tempus posted:
LOL Poor people getting what the deserve.
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from everything I know about greek people, this doesn't surprise me one bit...I bet 90% of the children left are girls too
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LOL @ European Socialism!! 
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the young and the weak are the first to go
this was the plot to the movie chitty chitty bang bang
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"That's a damn shame. Folks throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."
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rabbitslayer posted:
from everything I know about greek people, this doesn't surprise me one bit...I bet 90% of the children left are girls too
and what exactly do you know about Greek People?
From what I know of what you posted you seem prejudiced to insinuate such, I would hazard a guess that a lot more people are dumped here in the USA per capita even. In addition you are a fool if you believe one story wholeheartedly as the truth. Greeks have had negative population growth for decades and have been overrun by eastern european (Orthodox) immigrants, with more coastline that the USA they can't make their borders secure and have been pressured by the USA for decades to let Muslims fleeing the oppression of former Yugoslavia from what is now called Macedonia, into Greece.
All that said, I am sure this is happening though without the details of their national origin, and without the credibility of an organization that doesn't have a history of fabricating stories to sell more papers, I have a hard time accepting this as the unvarnished truth.
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Here is the scoop on our problem like this Illinois.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How prevalent is newborn abandonment in the United States?
According to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, 32 to 34 infants were found abandoned each year from 1997-1999. Of these, approximately 20 infants are abandoned in the first 24 hours of their life.
According to a CNN review of FBI statistics, nearly five infants under the age of one are killed in the U.S. each week.
The federal government and most states do not keep statistics specific to abandoned newborns. There is presently no way to clearly determine what portion of infant deaths are due to abandonment.
Why did Illinois pass the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act?
Passage of the Act addresses two important issues:
It significantly reduces the risk that a newborn will be abandoned in a perilous environment that may result in death and,
It protects parents who feel they have no option other than abandonment, but who compassionately deliver their newborn to a safe shelter."
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In addition this tabloid paper, think National Enquirer has a habit of making up stories.
see this complaint...
http://www.pcc.org.uk/cases/adjudicated.html?article=NzUzOQ==?oxid=ptrh3ejilugnrmioe81q99aii2
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Hyperimiator posted:
and what exactly do you know about Greek People?
aside from their fondness to piitb?
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I must be greek on the lower half then.
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didn't the Grease soccer team pay $200+ million for a player a few months ago
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to the greek.
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reminded me of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYJk01emsV8
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At least the young boys have a shot at being adopted by the men of Laconia.
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That's Heartbreaking.
Just wtf do you tell a 4 year old child in that situation
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Hyperimiator, you're talking about newborn babies. This story is talking about children that were already in the family for years, then to be dumped on the street, disgusting.
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Fozzie_Bear posted:
That's Heartbreaking.
Just wtf do you tell a 4 year old child in that situation
I dont know but I do know these type of kids grow up to be terrorists and radicals.
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Fozzie_Bear posted:
That's Heartbreaking.
Just wtf do you tell a 4 year old child in that situation
We are taking you to a farm where there will be many other kids to play with all day.
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Fozzie_Bear posted:
That's Heartbreaking.
Just wtf do you tell a 4 year old child in that situation
You don't tell them anything
Into the river like a bag of kittens
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CreepyHands posted:
Hyperimiator, you're talking about newborn babies. This story is talking about children that were already in the family for years, then to be dumped on the street, disgusting.
from the op link...
"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."
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Greek Maternity Hospitals About to Collapse Due to Immigrants’ Baby Boom Costs
Still wearing the brilliant gown of her native country, Sudan, Fatimah is patiently waiting outside the ER of Alexandra Hospital, the biggest and busiest Maternity & Gynecological hospital in Greece. She is about to give birth to her first child. She’s never been in Alexandra hospital before. She’s never had prenatal tests and she’s never met the gynecologist who is going to carry out the labor, or any gynecologist for that matter. Her situation is rather complicated. She was circumcised when she was seven. She might have Hepatitis or Aids but there’s no time for running tests. She’s having a baby.
She doesn’t speak a word of Greek and there’s no interpreter to give doctors the information they need to know. She has no “papers†or money. She’s an illegal, uninsured immigrant. She left her native Sudan two months ago-seven months pregnant- and traveled by bus, foot and boat through Egypt before puttering toward Crete with 15 others in a tiny motorboat. Fatimah is a typical example of an illegal immigrant that the Greek minister of Health Andreas Loverdos calls a “burden†for ESY, Greece’s National Health System.
Sitting at the crossroads of three continents, Greece has a long history of immigration but this time the situation is out of control. Tens of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East cross by boat to Greece’s Aegean islands each year. Humanitarian groups have condemned the situation as “shockingâ€. Such is the scale of the problem that the country has become Europe’s main gateway for illegal immigration, accounting for nearly half of those trying to reach the European Union. Greece’s constitution obliges the state to provide health care to citizens. By large, it does. Even those without resources of any kind can qualify for free health-care. But the system is a mess.
The War Zone of Alexandra Hospital ER
Should you visit the ER of Alexandra Hospital you will think you are in a conflict zone. Tens of expectant mothers from Asia and Africa lie on camp beds, endless queues of others in pain and doctors running around in panic trying to work with minimum medical supplies.
“The situation is out of control,†says a Gyn/Ob resident in Alexandra Hospital. “ Everyday we have tens of pregnant women from Asia and Africa with no medical records, no documents. They can’t even answer simple questions about their medical history because they don’t speak a word of Greek or English. They only come here when their waters brake. We don’t have time to run blood tests for Aids or Hepatitis or any tests for that matter. We go straight to the labor room without knowing what we’ll find.â€
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/12/27/greek-maternity-hospitals-about-to-collapse-due-to-immigrants-baby-boom-costs/
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regulator_cracka posted:
"That's a damn shame. Folks throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."
One of the great forgotten 80's movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScbNp0-bvGU
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Your "source" is the Daily Mail. That means what is written should be taken with a pinch of salt.
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The_Town_Perv posted:
regulator_cracka posted:
"That's a damn shame. Folks throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."
One of the great forgotten 80's movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScbNp0-bvGU
No need to click the link, cause I know it's a Beter Off Dead quote.
Quite possibly my favorite movie.
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Sith_Mauler posted:
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.
It comes as pharmacists revealed the country had almost run out of aspirin, as multi-billion euro austerity measures filter their way through society.
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.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085163/Children-dumped-streets-Greek-parents-afford-them.html#ixzz1jHYw0RaD
It is all sad, but in all fairness, nothing the US has not done for years in your own country, including during the boom and I don't recall you posting about it.
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As a people, they have come a long way from bearing gifts.
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