i feel so bad for orphans! IT must be so heartbreaking to lose parents or be abandoned
i know :( I wish i could adopt all of them. my husband and i actually want to adopt a child in a couple of years
that's so sweet of you! it's so sad that orphan does not have any parents to care for him or her
extremely sad!
has died, a "paternal orphan" is a child whose father has died, and a "double orphan" is a child who has lost both parents. This contrasts with the older use of "half-orphan" to describe children who had lost only one parent.
Populations.
Orphans are relatively rare in developed countries, because most children can expect both of their parents to survive their childhood. Much higher numbers of orphans exist in war-torn nations such as Afghanistan.
- 2001 figures from 2002
it's, you, it's when people have a loved one that dies and they end on a bad note, you know, they wish that they could say something to them. So this is an opportunity for the deceased to say something before they go. And it was my impression of what I would like to say to people, if I had say, 3 seconds to do so in life before I died I'd say to the entire world, to all my friends, I love you all, and