51�Թ�

Seed only began exploring the true breadth and emotion of her mother’s legacy when she herself reached the age that her mom died, a milestone fraught for many grown, parentless children.

Syrians have experience in facing the tragedy of parentless children: Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in Syria’s long civil war, which began in 2011, creating unknown numbers of orphans.

It has noted that the authorities are searching for relatives of parentless children left in Ukraine to find opportunities to send them home when possible.

The Russianization of parentless Ukrainian children is part of a broader crisis of Ukrainian war orphans who are being scattered across Europe.

Should a parentless 16-year-old who says she knows she is not able to care for a baby be denied an abortion by a judge?