The donors had good intentions, but it was hard to believe that anyone could celebrate stuffing a bunch of parentless preadolescents into repainted trailers.
Of the five states with the largest projected number of AIDS orphans -- New York, New Jersey, California, Florida and Texas -- only California receives federal subsidies available to relatives who become legal guardians of parentless children.
The coming increase in AIDS orphans will raise the total of parentless children to about 40 million by 2010, the report forecast.
MIAMI — A group of 53 Haitian orphans landed in Pittsburgh on Tuesday morning, the first wave to arrive after the United States loosened its policy on visa requirements to expedite Americans' adoptions of parentless children living in the post-earthquake ruins.
Its supporters say a surge in adoptions by Christians has offered hope and middle-class lives to thousands of parentless or abandoned children from abroad and, increasingly, to foster children in the United States as well.
Frank's children, now motherless, will have the kind of parentless existence with their uncle that April Wheeler had as a child, and which, her husband felt, damaged her.
There's a simple, stout-hearted theme song, played on the piano, for this band of parentless adventurers, with variations and embellishments appropriate to each picture (pauses in the music indicate when it's time to turn the page).
"I have a crowd of parentless children in my monastery, and I want to start a school for them," said the soft-spoken monk, checking a long to-do list.
"A burgeoning population of parentless children, adolescents and rootless youth is simply overwhelming for every state," Mr. Lewis said in the lectures he delivered at the University of Toronto last year.
On the other hand, implantation of unknown amount of parentless 40Ar from lunar atmosphere through SW would result in higher 40Ar/39Ar ages.
