Sentence examples for deserted children from inspiring English sources

MVC/OVC were also purposively selected to capture age differences, gender, and nature of vulnerability (such as loss of both or one parent; destitute parents, deserted children, child heads of households).

It is about a ruthless dealer, who travels along the drovers' roads purporting to carry abandoned infants to London's new Coram Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Children.

Their deserted children half-believe this is the truth.Mr Bakopoulos's well-told debut novel is the first-person story of the coming-of-age of one of the sons, Michael Smolij (16 when his father vanished) and his friends.

The play, adapted by Helen Edmundson from a novel by Jamila Gavin, tells of two orphans at a home for deserted children: one saved from an African slave ship, the other the abandoned son of the heir to a great estate.

The series comprises, in effect, an entire Down East Yoknapatawpha: hunters, snowmobilers, bikers, loggers, militia men, journalists, secret agents, wives, girlfriends and, in the case of "The School on Heart's Content Road," two deserted children who find a home for themselves in St. Onge's off-the-grid settlement.

The parents drop off their child at a safe place hoping that he or she survives; hence, he or she is not a so-called deserted child.

She has fled her violent husband and even deserted her children to find refuge among sadhus, wandering holy men, in a Bengali cremation ground.

Her husband claimed that he had rescued her from seventeen earlier attempts, but Guggenheim steadfastly refused to believe that the death was not an accident, because "I know she would have never deserted her children".

The photos produced by the group these days are melancholy tableaus from a crippled city: deserted streets, children playing among levelled buildings, a spent artillery shell repurposed as a flower vase containing a single rose.

The photos produced by the group these days are melancholy tableaus from a crippled city: deserted streets, children playing among leveled buildings, a spent artillery shell repurposed as a flower vase containing a single rose.

Camels trundle across a desert, children stampede through a nunnery, a man in a fez performs a dervish dance, parachutists descend from the sky.