Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We often think of “orphans” as children who have lost both parents and who lack kin networks. One might ask why someone would “opt ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Pop culture is full of lovable orphans. There’s Annie, of course, and Harry Potter, ...

The Retail Orphan Initiative (RetailROI), a charitable foundation created to help more than 400 million vulnerable children worldwide, is celebrating its fifth anniversary. Since its inception, ...

Once upon a time, when I was a child in bed at night, I would fantasize that the grownups asleep in the other bedroom were not my real parents. I imagined that I had been an orphan abandoned at birth, ...

Children wash clothes at Haitian Children's Rescue Mission in Haiti. Albert L. Reyes, president of Buckner International, says a decades-long shift has taken place in the U.S. away from institutional ...

A number of orphaned and underprivileged children in western Ghor province say access to free education, provided by a young ...

Step back in time to March 15, 1906, when the Orphan Train pulled into the Eastern Iowa town of Hopkinton. Townsfolk paused in their daily routines, drawn to the unusual gathering prompted by the ...

In the world of international child development and orphan care, it's not uncommon for children with families to declare themselves orphans. In fact, this practice can be traced back to precolonial ...