19th century NYC streets were full of "unwanted" kids ...
Yeah, selling newspa .... whoops
Posted on 01/11/2012 11:46:34 AM PST by traumer
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.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I am thinking you are correct.
Keep in mind the dominance of the Greek orthodox church in the country.
Also keep in mind the British are looking for ways to collapse the euro currency.
Who are they sending? MR. BEAN? That would be like looking for tortillas in Mexico...........
Would you want to consider the conditions of an orphanage in a country that subsidizes pedophilia as an occupation? Would the government-employed pyromaniacs burn the place down before the pedophiles could have sex with all the children? Greek reality TV!
I agree. This has all the characteristics of tabloid sensationalism. And I don't even have a Greek-sounding screen name.
Athens' Ark of the World youth centre said four children, including a newborn baby, had been left on its doorstep in recent months.
That's *four* abandoned kids in many *months* in a city of close to 4 million! Gee, show me one city of that size where that does *not* happen. Granted, there may be more cases other than those left at that Ark (which by its purpose would be an obvious magnet for leaving kids there - and yet only four in months), but still...
TC this kind of thing, pedophilia that is has been going on the Greek island since????? Plato? Socrates? Before both? Honestly if the who island fell into the ocean that would be the only way to end the pedophilia that has gone on since long before Christ.
How sad. I just saw Jolie and Pitt why don’t they go help these babies? Why doesn’t America wake up that this could be us soon?
Yeah, selling newspa .... whoops
FYI: All in the picture are dead now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsboys_Strike_of_1899
Newspaper boys, also called ‘newsboys’ or ‘newsies’, were the main distributors of newspapers to the general public from the mid-19th to the early 20th century in the United States. Standing on street corners, walking through neighborhoods and hawking their papers throughout every city, they first appeared with the rise of mass circulation newspapers. Newsboys tended to be among the poorest classes of society, often seen sleeping on the streets. The newsboys were not employees of the newspapers but rather purchased the papers from the publishers and sold them as independent agents. Not allowed to return unsold papers, the newsboys typically earned around 30 cents a day and often worked until very late at night.[3] Cries of “Extra, extra!” were often heard into the morning hours as newsboys attempted to hawk every last paper.[4]
Newsboys were not often well received. In 1875 a popular writer of the period wrote, “There are 10,000 children living on the streets of New York....The newsboys constitute an important division of this army of homeless children. You see them everywhere.... They rend the air and deafen you with their shrill cries. They surround you on the sidewalk and almost force you to buy their papers. They are ragged and dirty. Some have no coats, no shoes, and no hat.” However, the common ill-treatment of the newsboys was not a major concern of society.[5]
Indeed, intergenerational same-sex intimacy has been a historical feature of Greek society for as long as there’s been history. (It’s important to emphasize the homosexual element, because they sure weren’t interested in little girls, nor much in adult women. Funny what that does to the birthrate ...)
Who said anything about "food?"
Your point?
don’t know much about history?
In ancient athens those caught with minors were stoned to death.
The spartan myth in that regards is a product of western professors mistranslating mentor/mentee or teacher/student into sex partner.
Even alexander the great was bastardized in the last 60 years despite actual historical records. (alexander threatening death to someone offering a young male rather than a woman.)
Either way the greek ecconomy is a mess.
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