Charity Organization The Orphan Crisis
November 132009
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• There are 143,000,000 orphans in the world
• There are an additional 20,000,000 displaced children in the world
• The combined count of these categories makes the orphan population the 7th largest nation
on the planet slightly larger than the population of Russia
• In Eastern Europe, less than 50% of the orphan population will live to see their 20th birthdays
• In Eastern Europe, of the orphans that survive their 20th birthdays, 50% will end up in organized crime, drugs, or prostitution
• In Africa, homeless children are armed and used for war
• In Africa, there is a concerted effort to extend childrens lives beyond 5 years of age
• In the US, 25,000 children will leave the foster care system without families
• 25% of these foster children become homeless,
• 56% of these emancipated foster care children enter the unemployment ranks
• 27% of the male children who leave the foster care system end up in jail
• 30% of the female children who leave the foster care system experience early parenthood
• 30,000 children in foster care are simply dropped from state care because they have run away
• In the US, most young adults ages 18 24 still live at home with their parents, while approximately 25,000 children are annually released at age 18 from the foster care system without families to support them
Each Day in America for All Children
2 mothers die in childbirth.
4 children are killed by abuse or neglect.
5 children or teens commit suicide.
8 children or teens are killed by firearms.
33 children or teens die from accidents.
78 babies die before their first birthdays.
201 children are arrested for a violent crime.
404 children are arrested for a drug crime.
928 babies are born at low birthweight.
1,154 babies are born to teen mothers.
1,240 public school students are corporally punished.*
2,224 babies are born without health insurance.
2,367 high school students drop out.*
2,479 children are confirmed as abused or neglected.
2,583 babies are born into poverty.
4,184 babies are born to unmarried mothers.
4,520 children are arrested.
18,493 public school students are suspended.
* Based on calculations per school day (180 days of seven hours each).
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