i grew up as an orphan.
[{"role": "system", "content": "An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans\u2014children whose biological parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to take care of them. Biological parents, and sometimes biological grandparents, are legally responsible for supporting children, but in the absence of these, no named godparent, or other relatives willing to care for the children, they become a ward of the state, and orphanages are one way of providing for their care, housing and education. It is frequently used to describe institutions abroad, where it is a more accurate term, since the word orphan has a different definition in international adoption. Most children who live in orphanages are not orphans; four out of five children in orphanages having at least one living parent and most having some extended family. Most orphanages have been closed in Europe and North America. There remain a large number of state funded orphanages in the former Soviet Bloc but they are slowly being phased out in favour of direct support to vulnerable families and the development of foster care and adoption services where this is not possible. Few large international charities continue to fund orphanages; however, they are still commonly founded by smaller charities and religious groups.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I grew up as an orphan, but not the usual way in an Orphanage. What is an orphanage like?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well it is where orphans live, because their parents are dead or somehow unable to take care of them."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you think it is a good place to live for a kid?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Most have been closed in North America, probably because they are not a great place to live."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What do you know about them?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not a lot of international charities support or fund orphanages, but sometimes small charities or religious groups do.  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I suppose some feel it is an inhumane environment. Do you know of any countries that still have orphanages, or something else I might find interesting?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The Soviet Bloc does currently, but even there they are phasing them out and going more with foster care."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah. Foster care is more individualized I suppose. What do you think about the situation?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "If a kid can't get kinship care, with grandparents or other relatives, then foster care seems like the next best option."}]