Growing Orphan Epidemic

For a moment, just stop and think about this one factor; the amount of increase of the aids epidemic and the problem with drug addiction. With more and more outbreak of the aids virus and increase in drug addiction; there is a growth in the orphan population of epic proportion.

Just in speaking with individuals about this issue on an ongoing basis, I have discovered that most people are unaware of the amount of parentless children through-out the world. This is a daunting figure, so hold onto your hat; there are over one hundred and forty-three million orphans through out the world today. The current statistic is, every 18 seconds; there is another child that becomes parentless.

So, where are we headed with such a rapid growing problem? Let’s just brain storm about this for a moment. We all know that children left without a loving, nurturing environment have the odds stacked against them in turning out to be happy productive members of society.

Well let us do some math here, with 3.3 eighteen second periods in one minute and one thousand, four hundred and forty minutes in a day; that produces four thousand, seven hundred and fifty-two orphans every single day. With 365 days in a year, that means that every year, there are one million, seven hundred and thirty-four thousand, four hundred and eighty children that become parentless.

But, this figure is somewhat hypothec since this is a growing epidemic because of the numbers of increase in drug use and aids virus. Alright, so the numbers play in here but, back to the brainstorm. If this is not addressed, just imagine what kind of an impact this will eventually have on society.

I know, you are wondering about now; what can one person do about such a massive problem. Well, I guess we could all just stick our heads in the sand, pretend it isn’t there and hope it will all go away on it’s own. Or, we can conclude that there is nothing one person can do, leave it up to government. Well just a little insert here, how much do you hear government address this issue, well that’s how much they are doing about it!

Since it is said, “Children are our future” what does that lead us to conclude about the picture we would view of the world, ten, twenty, thirty…years from now?

It makes me shutter to think of it, like a snowball effect; greater numbers of people with drug problems, increased amounts in the numbers of infected individuals with the aids virus, increase in crime…where are we headed?