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": "Hi, I grew up as an orphan before I was adopted."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm so sorry to hear that. Orphans are relatively rare in the U.S. and other developed countries; most kids here can expect their parents to live until they are grown up. I'm sorry to hear this. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "No worries, I enjoy my life now. Is it legal to adopt orphans in the U.S?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not sure. I know if no other relatives step in to raise the child, then they become what we call a ward of the state. But surely there is a process for adoption. I just don't know what it is. Have you ever heard of The Orphan Train? "}, {"role": "user", "content": "The Orphan Train? What is that?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It was a program that transported orphans from crowded cities in the East of the US to new homes in rural towns. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "That sounds like a good program. What else do you know about it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The trains operated between 1854 and 1929, so it's long gone now. It relocated about 200,000 kids that needed new homes. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats incredible! Lots of children will have benefited from this."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, I only just learned about the orphan trains, so I am curious why they ended. They were run by three charities. "}]