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4 days ago · orphanhood: 1 n the condition of being a child without living parents Synonyms: orphanage Type of: condition a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing
5 days ago · Saint Jerome Emiliani, Patron Saint of Orphans and abandoned children: Saint of the Day, February 8. Jerome Emiliani lay chained in the dark dirty dungeon.. When he finally was able to escape, he hung his metal chains in the nearby church of Treviso, in gratitude not only for being freed from physical prison but from his spiritual dungeon as well.
My little podunk school library had a surprising amount of classic hardback sci-fi. I discovered this Heinlein book as well as Asimov's 2001, L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, Del Rey's Tunnel Through Time and also Attack from Atlantis, plus a funny little thing called The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek.
2 days ago · They are one of the lucky ones. There have been a reported 20,000 civilian casualties in Mariupol, Ukraine. Groups like Kidsave are trying to rescue a tsunami of orphaned children. “Every day, more and more children are being orphaned in Ukraine. There’s no question about that,” Kidsave CEO Randi Thompson said.
3 days ago · v. t. e. Same-sex adoption is the adoption of children by same-sex couples. It may take the form of a joint adoption by the couple, or of the adoption by one partner of the other's biological child ( stepchild adoption). Joint adoption by same-sex couples is permitted in 39 countries. Most countries and territories that allow same-sex marriage ...
5 days ago · Daily diary of a single momther
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3 days ago · The number of orphans dipped 66 percent between 2012 and 2019, from about 570,000 to 190,000, a Ministry of Civil Affairs official said Tuesday. Zhao Yong, deputy head of the ministry's child welfare department, said 59,000 of them are reared in the country's sprawling orphanage network, down 30 percent from 86,000 in 2017, and more than 70 ...
