Growing up in orphanages.

I met a woman today who told me she had just had a great experience. I asked her what it was. She said she had just gone shopping! I asked her what was so great about that? She replied that she had just returned from South Africa, where she had been working in two orphanages, and had not shopped in months. She said that because of the AIDS epidemic, 40,000 African adults die each year, leaving their children without a parent. She said that in homes where there are older children, the babies are often raised by the older children. Where there are no older children, the young ones are raised in orphanages. She said there is a huge need for adoptive families.