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Emigration from Lithuaniaby Deividas RIMKUS (1995), Roberta STIRBYTĖ (1995), SPG Šilutė/LithuaniaFrom the old times people have been emigrating from Lithuania. Nowadays it is becoming the biggest problem inour country. People emigrate because they want to have a better life, better speciality and better payment forthe work.They do so, for this reason Lithuania is going to lose a lot of good quality workers who live here.According to statistics people most emigrate to the UK and Ireland. These countries are attractive to theLithuanians. In 2009 more than a third of the Lithuanians moved to live in the UK.Emigrants are often from 20 to 34, and due to this, every eighth emigrant is a child under 18. We can make theconclusion that young families are leaving our country because they are looking for a better life.There are a lot of cases when parents leave their infants to foster-parent and it is very painful. Parents oftenleave their children to grandparents, aunts, uncles, their brothers and sisters, but there are a lot of cases whenparents leave their children to friends or neighbours.In our region according to statistics in 2010 parents left 117 kids in charge of other people and very often thesechildren are from villages (60), but also from towns (57).The age of the abandoned children are from 10 to 14.When parents leave their children, they do much harm to them. Children feel lonely, they retire into themselvesand a lot of other things happen to them. They begin to find friends who are left by their parents too. Thesechildren start to drink, smoke or do worse things.So, the problem of emigration is very big in Lithuania. First of all we can make a conclusion that people wouldn‘tmove from Lithuania if they didn‘t have problems. But if they decided to do it parents should take their childrenwith them. Here is our survey.posted on Thursday, March 8th, 2012by Deborah CIOCCOLONI (1994), LSP Assisi/ItalyApril 27th, 2012 at 3:33 pmFrom a little survey that I made in my class, it emerges that most of myclassmates want to go to another country when they finish school. Someof them think to go and study abroad while others hope to work abroad. Iasked them where they would like to go and most answered that theywould choose the USA or the UK, maybe forever, because they thinkthose countries offer more opportunities. Some of them, however, aresure they will remain in Italy because they feel at home here. I made alittle graphic to explain in which countries my schoolmates would like togo.by Živilė BUIVYDAITĖ (1996), SPG Šilutė/LithuaniaApril 24th, 2012 at 7:49 amA good article and I agree with you except when you said, that parents should take their children with them. Ithink they should pay attention to their children’s personality because if they want to do bad things they will do.Certainly I am talking about teenagers. And if parents take their children with them, they lose their friends andbegin to change their intercourse and then children retire into themselves.n° 9/2013, page 96