Hi there! Who is an Orphan?
An orphan is a person who has no known parents.
You mean known his parents?
Typically it means when they lose both parents to death.
Ok
It's strange because when we are talking about orphan animals, we are pretty much just referring to the mother being absent. The father's whereabouts are irrelevant.
Truly strange indeed! Going by the earlier definition. I thought it takes both parents to be absent for a child to be an orphan?
I thought so too, but apparently with animals if the female parent is gone, they are considered an orphan regardless.
May be that's because its only the mother that takes care of his kids with animals as opposed to human
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
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