I was asked the question over the summer, “how do children in China end up in orphanages?” The standard reasons are as true for China as they are for the rest of the world in many cases. For some children, their guardians meet unexpected deaths, and some parents are deemed unfit parents for various reasons. One boy in the orphanage we serve is there because his mother was arrested for drug abuse. Another little girl’s mother is currently in the hospital due to mental illness. There are sometimes even teenage mothers who are still very young themselves. Like their counterparts in the rest of the world, many of these mothers are not able to care for their children due to their lack of ability to be self-sustaining. |
Stephanie (Rommen) Li"Every child needs to be loved in gigantic quantities and with unbelievable quality." Archives
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