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Risk and resilience in orphaned adolescents living in a community affected by AIDS.

STIGMA AS A PREDICTOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES AMONG ORPHANS RESIDES IN ORPHANAGES

It provides three alternatives for young Emiratis willing to contribute.These include providing guidance and good advice, taking care of orphaned and minor students for a certain number of class hours, and setting up common interest groups to engage orphans and minors in activities like swimming and biking.

Ruler of Dubai launches initiative for orphans and minors

Edwin van Leeuwen from the Comparative Cognitive Anthropology Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, said that orphaned chimpanzees had more difficulties to successfully coordinate their social play interactions.

Mother chimps help offspring develop social skills

One of the measures of a great society is how it cares for the less privileged - the orphaned, the disadvantaged.

A loving home for the abandoned

Being orphaned affects educational status adversely; orphans are less likely than non-orphans to be at their proper educational level, with a stronger effect at younger ages (6-10) than older ages (11-14).

Number of AIDS orphans rapidly increasing in sub-Saharan Africa

By 2010, AIDS will leave 20 million children in Africa without one or both parents, nearly double the current 11 million orphaned children (Altman, 2002) Additionally, 5 million children will be orphaned elsewhere in the world due to the parent's death(s) from AIDS.

The growth of AIDS orphans and policy solutions. (Legislative and Policy Update)

SION, SWITZERLAND -- The number of children orphaned worldwide because of AIDS could reach 100 million by 2010, far greater than the official estimates of between 26.4 million and 44 million.

100 million AIDS orphans by 2010? (Child & Family)

Children--like the orphaned William, rejected by the Children's Aid Society; Robert, tormented at Beech Brook and returned to the Detention Home, the black girls in the segregated cottage at Blossom Hill; the black children in the dangerous, damaging Detention Center of the 1990s--learned: "[You] don't matter and [you] are not important.'"

INSTITUTIONALIZING INEQUALITIES: BLACK CHILDREN AND CHILD WELFARE IN CLEVELAND, 1859-1998

Turn-of-the-century Southern Baptists exhibited a keen interest in orphaned children.

For of such is the kingdom of heaven": institutionalizing youth benevolence among Southern Baptists, 1890-1920

In addition to being orphaned, Long Arrow is deaf, and the only person in the world who loves him is his sister.

From Folktales to Fiction: Orphan Characters in Children's Literature

An array of activities, including plays and performing arts were held to mark Orphan Day while outstanding orphaned students were honoured for their excellent academic performance.

Sudan praises QC's support for orphans

QC, as part of the efforts of its 'Rofaqa' initiative, sponsors 1,581 persons in Tunisia including poor families, orphans, people with special needs, and teachers, of whom 1,473 are orphaned girls and boys.