page_title: Orphan
hierarchical_section_title: Orphan
context_page_description: An orphan is a child whose parents have died, are unknown, or have permanently abandoned them.
  In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant.
context_section_description: An orphan (from the Greek: ορφανός, romanized: orphanós) is a child whose parents have died, are unknown, or have permanently abandoned them.
  In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant (i.e. if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition).
caption: Orphans by Thomas Kennington, oil on canvas, 1885
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