© AP/Dimitri MessinisDemonstrators gather during a peaceful rally outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, on Sunday, June 5, 2011. Thousands of protesters have gathered for a 12th consecutive day to protest at fiscal austerity measures and demand that Greece stop paying its debtors. They have also denounced politicians of all stripes as incompetent and corrupt.
"Thieves - hustlers - bankers," read one banner as more than 50,000 people packed the main Syntagma square outside parliament to vent their frustration over rising joblessness as austerity bites, blaming the crisis on political corruption.
Turnout was the biggest so far in a series of 12 nightly rallies on the square inspired by Spain's protest movement.
Amidst a sea of splayed hands waved at the parliament building -- an offensive gesture for Greeks -- one demonstrator raised a placard reading "Bravo Yemen", whose president underwent surgery in Saudi Arabia for injuries suffered in a rocket attack on his palace.
Comment: Perhaps expectations in general should not be based on what society as a whole defines as success but rather what is healthiest for the child in the long term.
For more information regarding the effect of parental expectations on children, see this Sott link:
Parents' expectations, styles can harm college students' self-esteem