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orphan: see adoption adoption, act by which the legal relation of parent and child is created. Adoption was recognized by Roman law but not by common law . Statutes first introduced adoption into U.S. law in the mid-19th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. ; foundling hospital foundling hospital, institution for receiving and caring for abandoned children. In Athens and in Rome until the 4th cent., unwanted children were exposed, or left to die, in appointed places. ..... Click the link for more information. ; guardian and ward guardian and ward, in law. A guardian is someone who by appointment or by relationship has the care of a person or that person's property, or both. The protected individual, known as the ward, is considered legally incapable of acting for himself or herself; examples ..... Click the link for more information. . See widow & orphan. Orphan See also Abandonment. Adverse, Anthony finally, at middle age, discovers origins. [Am. Lit.: Anthony Adverse] brought up by stingy uncle and kindly aunt. [Br. Lit.: Of Human Bondage, Magill I, 670–672] child found and brought up by Silas Marner. [Br. Lit.: Eliot Silas Marner in Benét, 930] the “orfling” from St. Luke’s workhouse; Mrs. Micawber’s maid-of-all-work. [Br. Lit.: David Copperfield] waif indentured to the cruel Thenardiers; saved by the honorable Valjean. [Fr. Lit.: Les Miserables] Italian war baby taken in by Americans. [Comics: Horn, 217]
his mother dead; his father dies toward end of novel. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] feisty waif succored by paternal Daddy Warbucks. [Comics: Horn, 459] infant adopted by miners when his prostitute mother dies. [Am. Lit.: Bret Harte “The Luck of Roaring Camp” in Magill III, 597] Philip Pirrip, orphaned as an infant. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations] foundling reared in school of hard knocks. [Br. Lit.: Oliver Twist] |
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One of the results of the AIDS epidemic that has swept across Africa is the orphaning of millions of children who have lost one or both of their parents to the disease. His own projections suggest that AIDS orphaning is a pandemic in and of itself that could exceed the number of people afflicted with the disease, Monk said. |
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