Talk:Orphan

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Contents 1 How Many Orphans Are There in the World? 2 Some Wikipedia pages which you might have meant to be going to instead of this page 3 Legal definition 4 Positive relationships between men and orphaned boys in fiction and film 5 A link to Owen and Mzee?

[edit] 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]

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

• Wikipedia:Orphan - articles without any links to them
• Category:Orphaned_categories - catagories without parents

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

[edit] Legal definition

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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] A link to Owen and Mzee?

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)