history: Hi there! Who is an Orphan?
knowledge: An orphan (from the '''') is someone whose parents are dead, unknown, or have permanently abandoned him or her.
response: An orphan is a person who has no known parents.
history: Hi there! Who is an Orphan?
An orphan is a person who has no known parents.
You mean known his parents?
knowledge: In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan.
response: Typically it means when they lose both parents to death.
history: Hi there! Who is an Orphan?
An orphan is a person who has no known parents.
You mean known his parents?
Typically it means when they lose both parents to death.
Ok
knowledge: When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant (i.e.
response: You might be interested to know that when it comes to animals that are orphans, usually it's only the condition of the mother that's relevant.
history: Hi there! Who is an Orphan?
An orphan is a person who has no known parents.
You mean known his parents?
Typically it means when they lose both parents to death.
Ok
You might be interested to know that when it comes to animals that are orphans, usually it's only the condition of the mother that's relevant.
Truly strange indeed! Going by the earlier definition. I thought it takes both parents to be absent for a child to be an orphan?
knowledge: if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition).
response: Well in animals, the father's condition is not required to deem an offspring an orphan. Only the female parent being gone is relevant.
history: Hi there! Who is an Orphan?
An orphan is a person who has no known parents.
You mean known his parents?
Typically it means when they lose both parents to death.
Ok
You might be interested to know that when it comes to animals that are orphans, usually it's only the condition of the mother that's relevant.
Truly strange indeed! Going by the earlier definition. I thought it takes both parents to be absent for a child to be an orphan?
Well in animals, the father's condition is not required to deem an offspring an orphan. Only the female parent being gone is relevant.
May be that's because its only the mother that takes care of his kids with animals as opposed to human
knowledge: In this approach, a ''maternal orphan'' is a child whose mother has died, a ''paternal orphan'' is a child whose father has died, and a ''double orphan'' is a child who has lost both parents.
response: Perhaps.  Another bit of information, is that there are 3 types of orphans in humans.  If a father has died, the child is called a paternal orphan.  If the mother has died, maternal orphan is the term.  Double orphans have lost both of their parents.