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How Many Orphans Are There in the World?

Today in the 21st Century, the number of orphans worldwide are at about 150 million... and growing. At any time in America there are about 100,000 children available for adoption. In countries like Africa, the number children orphaned by AIDS is staggering. About every 13 seconds, a child in Africa is orphaned because of the AIDS virus.

Interestingly enough, there are very few non-faith-based organizations focused just on orphans. As such, most cannot raise money through corporate grants and giving (most will not give to faith-based organizations)... but they have the most to give!

OrphanWorldRelief 14:37, 18 August 2007 (UTC)Doug Riggle, Founder & Executive Director, [1][reply]


Some Wikipedia pages which you might have meant to be going to instead of this page



Can we get any information about how the orphans feel when their parents were died or got diseases?

The article says: "The US legal definition is someone bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, of both parents" [1]. "

This is the definition for the purposes of US Federal Immigration law only. That definition does not apply under any other law, American or otherwise. At best, it is a US legal definition, but not the US legal definition. I'm changing it to "one legal definition used in the USA". JackofOz 08:40, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Positive relationships between men and orphaned boys in fiction and film

I am removing this section. There is no reason why this is more important than any other type of orphans in fiction. Goldfritha 04:43, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I fail to see how relevant this link at the bottom of the page is. Yes, it's an orphan, but it just seems a little off topic. Any objections before I remove it (as there's bound to be objections after I do)? --Tustin2121 (talk) 19:38, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Definition of orphan

"An orphan (from the Greek ορφανός) is a child whose natural parents are absent or dead and who must be brought up in an orphanage or by foster parents.(...) Common usage limits the term to children, (or the young of animals) who have lost both parents."

I don't quite understand this. Is the meaning really that a child who has lost both parents and is growing up on the streets is technically not an orphan? Is it a Wiki Style thing that the term is presented sperated this way, or is this a POV? Google still shows the page cached as "An orphan (from the Greek ορφανός) is a person (typically a child), who has lost both parents, often through death." whereas wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn lists these definitions:

  1. a child who has lost both parents
  2. someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
  3. the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
  4. deprive of parents
  5. a young animal without a mother

but nothing about the requirement to be placed in care.

Please explain, because I have seen vaguely similar splintering in other articles on Wiki, where a term is shown with what seems to me to be perhaps the original meaning as the main "correct" one, and then a later mention of the one in popular usage - and with some terms I think that is giving way too much weight to the part of language that is *not* as much part of the living language - but this is of course *my* POV :D so no one has to share that! :)

It would just be great if someone could explain Cherryleaf (talk) 14:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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