"I started to write an album that would try to reach out to these kids and, in some ways, to be a father to these kids, because they were parentless," said Ben Drew, aka singer/songwriter Plan B. The aim of his early music, he added, was to "expose gun culture for what it really was – the grim reality.
For starters, the events that have left them parentless usually mean that their lives have been hard.
It seems strange that adoptive parents have to undergo tougher tests than foster parents (who get paid for looking after children), or staff in children's homes where parentless youngsters would otherwise end up.Most adoption organisations agree that adoption should be simplified and that children's welfare should be given greater priority.
Set in Rio de Janeiro, its heroes are three parentless boys who work as "pickers", sorting through rubbish in a sprawling landfill site.
OVER the past few years, a growing number of America's parentless children have found homes.
Mrs Stangl would not go as far as France, which is relaxed about anonymous delivery (and has plenty of angry parentless children).
Television makes the dual-career and single-parent family possible.In this section Essential Tiger burning bright Tenacious Browned off Feral and furious Party time ReprintsChildren hate being parentless.
The kid of the title, a feckless and all but parentless boy, was not indulged by the movie, still less sentimentalized, but regarded with patient charity — not just by the directors but also by the principal adult of the drama, a hairdresser who takes him in.
Isabel Archer, of Albany, aged twenty-one, and conveniently parentless, is brought by her aunt, Mrs. Touchett, to England.
Heathcliff is discovered parentless on the streets of Liverpool; Oliver Twist is orphaned from infancy.
The parentless Terri lives in a house in the woods, with an ailing uncle, an ancient TV, and sedimentary layers of books.
