Praying for my heart to break for what breaks YOURS...

 There are well over 143,000,000 worldwide and as many as 163,000 right here in the good ole US of A in need of adoption, 500,000 here needing foster homes. There are an additional 20,000,000 "displaced children" in the world.  The combined count of these categories makes the orphan population the 7th largest nation on the planet (slightly larger than the population of Russia).  In Eastern Europe, less than 50% of the orphan population will live to see their 20th birthdays, and of those that survive their 20th birthdays, 50% of them will end up in organized crime, drugs and/or prostitution.  In Africa, homeless children are armed and used for war.  And in some countries, unwanted children with Downs Syndrome are used for terrorist acts of bombing. (source)
 In Haiti, Africa, places in S. America, Asia, Eastern Europe there is NOTHING!  You are a FORTUNATE orphan if you have access to the few poor overcrowded orphanages available. Even still you are probably malnourished. Those not in orphanages are often forced into child traffic, slave labor, criminal activity, abuse, begging, uneducated, sick, and expose to the elements.