Do you know what an orphan is? I was shocked that I didn't know. (pizzagate)

submitted ago by Commoner

I ASSUMED an orphan was a child who had lost BOTH parents. However, I was wrong. According to the UN, an orphan is a child who has lost ONLY ONE parent.
From Wikipedia, "Various groups use different definitions to identify orphans. One legal definition used in the United States is a minor bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents".[5] In the common use, an orphan 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, a paternal orphan is a child whose father has died, and a double orphan has lost both parents.[6] This contrasts with the older use of half-orphan to describe children that had lost only one parent.[7]"

This is the guidelines from UNICEF approved in 2009: https://www.unicef.org/protection/alternative_care_Guidelines-English.pdf

Apparently, a country can declare you an orphan if you do not have the correct parenting.
Someone could sure have access to many children under these guidelines.

This is the blog I was reading when I discovered that an orphan was not what I assumed. It is from someone who works at "Second Mile" Orphanage in Haiti...probably one of the good ones. It is an interesting and recent(6/16) read about the number of orphanages in Haiti:

http://www.secondmilehaiti.org/blog/2016/6/5/my-controversial-orphanage-post

If this is old news or I am wrong about this, please accept my apology. I searched and didn't find anything else on this.

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equineluvr ago

THE SECOND MILE FOUNDATION

Sandusky founded Second Mile in 1977 as a "foster home dedicated to helping troubled boys with absent or dysfunctional families."

That's what members of NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) would call a "chicken ranch".

The victim in the 2002 anal rape in the Penn State locker room was a boy housed at Second Mile.

Here it gets interesting - "The Second Mile Foundation was recognized as one of President Bush's 1000 Points of Light. Marvin P. Bush is on the National Collegiate Athletic Association Board of Directors "

This is how child trafficking in plain sight works in America.

Children and teenage minors without parental care become 'wards of the State'. It means CPS (Child Protective Services) has custody of them and juvenile court judges can hand them over to whomever they deem fit.

PizzaGateDiscovery ago

Not too much on Marvin. Neil was the one involved with "women" in Thailand according to divorce papers.

Here's a few tidbits on Marvin.

http://www.metafilter.com/53245/Marvin-the-neglected-Bush

Marvin, the neglected Bush We hear about the Bush family a good deal but seldom do we learn much about the "other brother," that is, "Marvin P. Bush, the president’s younger brother, [...] a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport. The company, Burns noted, was backed by KuwAm, a Kuwaiti-American investment firm on whose board Marvin Burns also served. [Utne] According to its present CEO, Barry McDaniel, the company had an ongoing contract to handle security at the World Trade Center "up to the day the buildings fell down." But then, Marvin has led a rather odd life, and more can be learned about him here Wikipedia sums up this Bush in a short bio, and notes the rather odd accident befalling his baby sitter This accident had been reported by The Washington Post but largely ignored by other papers.

More on babysitter's death: http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/10-16-03/discussion.cgi.16.html