Wednesday, February 14, 2018

True orphans versus social orphans

According to UNICEF figures, only 10.7% of orphans have lost both parents. They are the true orphans, while the others are social orphans. When we think of 89.3% of the estimated 140 million orphans as having one parent, it makes an interesting situation. How many are abandoned, how many parents have lost parental rights, and perhaps other factors such as poverty, migration, or children who run away or are abducted into human trafficking.

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