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There is a widely accepted basic human needs’ model that can be used to determine whether a child is receiving proper care, and any single element missing from the child’s life is very likely to have a profound effect on their ability to survive, thrive and become a non-criminal and productive part of their society. Children who do not have parental care are missing most, if not all, of the elements of basic human needs. When this occurs, one of two things will happen. They will perish, or they will find their own means of obtaining the elements of those basic human needs. The source of those provisions will largely determine what level of social, mental, spiritual and physical damage is done to the child, and if they do survive, they will become what they learned and generally are bitter, non compassionate and free of conscience and attachment except to the provider. A perfect example of this is the Taliban. Nearly 80% of the Taliban are orphans. (The original group was orphans created during the Soviet occupation and still today the orphan population is their main source for recruitment into what is thought to be the most merciless and murderous group of known terrorists that exists.) Imagine what a different world it would be if someone with good intentions had cared for and educated those orphan children instead of the warlords that fed them and indoctrinated them with their evil. There is potential for the same thing to happen again in Rwanda and Sudan where so many orphans have been created by the wars, and in the case of Sudan, so many of those children are communal.
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