ATHENS, Greece - January 11, 2012 - Children are being abandoned on Greece's streets by their poverty-stricken families who can no longer afford to look after them.
Youngsters are being dumped by parents who are struggling to make ends meet in what is fast becoming the most tragic human consequence of the ongoing Depression in Europe.
It comes at a time when pharmacists have revealed that the country has almost run out of aspirin, while multi-billion euro austerity measures filter their way through society.