Another Greek couple arrested for abducting a baby

[IdaBriggs]

11. I am not familiar with the Greek system for surrendering children but

I have recently been made aware of "orphanages" in the Ukraine where children are surrendered if they are born prematurely or have other handicaps, or have parents who lose their rights because of "issues" -- the stories are Not Good. If I understand it correctly, family is such a big deal that these "orphans" are marked as such for the rest of their lives on all official documentation.

We take food availability for granted, but not everyone in the world has the same experience, let alone access to birth control or education. The availability of girl children from China (which used to get a lot of publicity) was a big deal, and we were told (this was over a decade ago) that there was a lot of support for adopting these "abandoned" children because otherwise there lives would be as permanent field workers, with no hope of marriage or children or bettering themselves.

As I said, I don't know about Greece under the austerity situations, but someone recommended googling "greeks abandon children under austerity" and frankly, I can't bring myself to do it.

Most of us in the United States are very lucky; we don't even notice it. The plight of children all over the world is bluntly, terrifying.