who are orphans?

an orphan is a child whose parents are dead or have abandoned them permanently. 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. if she has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition.

adult can also be referred to as orphan, or adult orphans. however, those who are reached adulthood before their parents died are normally not called orphans, the term is generally reserved for children whose parents have died while they are too young to support themselves.
In the common use an orphans does not have any surviving parent to care for him or her. however the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS(UNAIDS), and other groups label any child that has lost one parent as an orphan. in this approach,, a maternal orphan is a child whose mother has died, paternal orphan is a child whose father has died, and a double orphan has lost both parents. this contrasts with the older use of half-orphan  to describe children that  had lost only one parent.

An Orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans children whose biological parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them. biological parents and sometimes biology parents and sometimes biological grandparents, are legally responsible for supporting children, but in the absence of these, no named godparent, or other relatives willing to care for the children, they because a ward of the state and orphanages are one way of providing for their care, housing and education
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