I grew up as a orphan, a orphan is someone whose parents are dead, or unknown,
Oh I'm sorry to hear that, did you go through the foster system? I hear it can be awful for a lot of kids.
No I had a aunt, But a child is only called orphan when both parents are gone.
Ah, I actually didn't know that, I just figured if they were on their own for any reason other than that they chose it, they were considered one.
Well when animals are orphaned it only matters if the moms condition is gone.
I guess that happens more frequently in animals than in humans, huh?
Orphan
An orphan (from the ) is someone whose parents have died, are unknown, or have permanently abandoned them.
In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant (i.e. if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition).
Definitions.
Various groups use different definitions to identify orphans. One legal definition used in the
took about 9 months to write, the same length of time it takes to make a child. Interesting, huh? I had done a lot of research on the Middle Ages for Catherine, Called Birdy, so I knew a lot about the time and place. The research I did was for specific about childbirth, herbs, and healing." 
Plot.
In medieval England, a homeless orphan girl who has no name, and can recall being named Brat, attempts to nestle in a warm dung heap on