When author Kristen Martin lost her own parents to cancer as a child, her experience as an orphan was nothing like that.

Jason Carney ran 2nd Milk, a charity to feed African orphans and brokered adoptions in Malawi for U.S. clients.

Yet, it still carries an optimism that would make Orphan Annie proud — the hope that we might move beyond the fictional tropes and toward an accountability to American families that we have not ...

Monsignor Landi was Andrew Landi, an American priest living in Rome who ran the orphan program. Landi's boss had the ear of ...

The Orphan Trains follows the story of the New York Children's Aid Society, created in 1853 to provide thousands of street children with homes in rural communities in the American midwest.

World Day of War Orphans 2024: The purpose of the day is to spread awareness globally about the need to protect the human rights of children orphaned by wars and to generate efforts to secure a ...