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.
GeorgeT ago
World Trade Centre security was run by Securacom - guess who was in charge of Securacom on the days leading up to 9-11 - Marvin Bush!
cakeoflightylight ago
Has anyone seen the videos of 9/11 where they show that the planes never even hit the WTC and were edited in, and there was some other object that hit them? I mean obviously it was controlled demolition but what the hell were those objects? They looked like UFOs or something.
equineluvr ago
09/11 involved a ton of FAKERY.
Look into: Largely empty towers, smoke machines, people wearing harnesses, anatomically correct dummies in the towers, and Gelatin (The B Thing) hiring a private helicopter and rehearsing "suicide leaps" from the 91st floor. Also, there were several criminals who needed to "disappear" who were conveniently listed on flight manifests.
09/11 was huge INSURANCE FRAUD and destruction of EVIDENCE.
CynicalLurker ago
I believe 9/11 was a controlled demolition but what you are describing is ridiculous. Have you ever heard of Ockams razor?
Azagthoth ago
fewer assumptions most likely the right pick. Most likely. likely. Ockams razor is too often used when a motherfucker is too lazy to think out something critically.
Ockams razor, ragheads did it. See.