i grew up as an orphan.
[{"role": "system", "content": "An orphan (from the \"\") is someone whose parents are dead, unknown, or have permanently abandoned him or her. 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). Various groups use different definitions to identify orphans. One legal definition used in the United States is a minor bereft through \"death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents\". In the common use, an orphan does not have any surviving parent to care for him or her. However, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), and other groups label any child that has lost one parent as an orphan. In this approach, a \"maternal orphan\" is a child whose mother has died, a \"paternal orphan\" is a child whose father has died, and a \"double orphan\" is a child who has lost both parents. This contrasts with the older use of \"half-orphan\" to describe children that had lost only one parent. Orphans are relatively rare in developed countries, because most children can expect both of their parents to survive their childhood.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ive been an orphan for 6 years now, It just really stinks, Do you know much about them? How long would I have to stay here?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm so sorry that you are an orphan. I'm assuming both of your parents have passed away?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "at a young age they just gave up on me and left me in the care of the local orphanage, I am very sad about it. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm so sad to hear that. Thank goodness for orphanages, or residential institutions that care for orphans, exist."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah they are the best, The orphanage has taken real good care of me, in 2 years I can move out on my own without any guardian, Im curious does it cost a lto of money for them to run an orphanage? Id be willing to donate when I get out of here. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not sure but since orphaned children become wards of the state, I assume the state pays for them."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh yea thats true I suppose, I need to know what to do when I move out, it makes me very nervous. do you know how much an orphanage worker gets paid? Id be willing to get a job doing it. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not sure. Since an orphan doesn't have any surviving parents, you'll be on your own once you turn 18."}]