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Good day to you all,it a pleasure to share my life experiences as an orphan, but I thank God that life is dynamic being an orphan is not the end of someone life.
Who is this orphan or who can be call orphan?
In my own perspective,an orphan is known as a person or child that his or her parents died, but to me I still see it as a person or**. child whose parents are not known to them or a person whose have been abandoned by the their parents or biological father.
But the concept primarily focuses on the death of both parents, it can sometimes be used more broadly to include those who have lost one parent or those who lack adequate parental care and support.
Therefore, while the core context meaning of orphan is a child who has lost both parents, the term can have broader applications depending on the context.
But the concept does not involve fatherless or motherless,it is the total loose of both parents. So I will like to share this little experience that I see a year ago, there was one child that the parents disowned him and accusing him of being a witchcraft,so in this case the child that owns a father and mother becomes orphan going around the street begging for food,at this point he has become an orphan whereas his parents are alive.
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So,one prominent man in the community adopted the child and take care of the child from that tender age till University level.
At this point,did the parents proof the ownership of this child?, because even the child when he was told about how he came to the family didn't go to his parents, saying that they didn't want him to live on earth.
This social behavior is commonly found in our society,a lot of people are giving birth and through away the baby,some don't accept the responsibility of ownership. It makes the act to be common in our society, making life to be difficult to the affected people (orphans) These orphans will be going around begging for what to eat in the daily bases of their lives, this always brings a lot of unwanted crimes in the society.