STOCK MARKET WATCH - Wednesday, 1 February 2012

[AnneD]

86. Poor parents abandon children in Greece...

Greece's financial crisis is being blamed for the rising number of parents abandoning their children.

Athens-based Ark of the World, a non-profit organisation that cares for about 200 children, said a newborn baby was among those abandoned recently by parents who are struggling to make ends meet.

The mother of a two-year-old girl ran away after giving her daughter to volunteers at the centre, it said.

A four-year-old girl was left at Ark of the World with a note: "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."

The centre was founded in 1998 by Father Antonios Papanikolaou in an attempt to keep children with their mothers instead of being institutionalised.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/12565506/poor-parents-abandon-children-in-greece/

This is just about the saddest thing I have read in a long time. I know many Greek and they have such close knit families....What kind of hell it must be to think that your child is better off without you.

I look for that to become more common. Makes me want to lynch a bank CEO.