http://www.netsquared.org/tags/suicide share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jeff-mowatt/disposable-humanity <p>There are many sources for research into the plight of social orphans, ie those in institutional care due to economic circumstance. Today I found a summary of some of the more heavy reading:&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> ORPHAN STATISTICS</p> <p>The statistics will amaze you:<br />1. There are over 100,000 orphans in Ukraine.<br />2. The older an orphan gets, the chances for his/her adoption drastically decrease.<br />3. Each year many orphans between 15 to 18-years-old leave the orphanages.<br />4. Most of these orphans have no one to turn to for help.<br />5. About 10% of them will commit suicide after leaving the orphanage before their eighteenth birthday.<br />6. 60% of the girls will end up in prostitution<br />7. 70% of the boys will enter a life of crime<br />8. Only 27% of these youth will find work<br />These youth live in a country that labels them as &ldquo;useless&rdquo; and gives no assistance to turn their lives around. It is a society that has created its own problem by placing thousands of children in orphanages, and then when they come of age, they give them no assistance to lead a successful life. It is almost as if the system places them in trade schools to become &ldquo;slaves of the State&rdquo; to fill the low-income jobs of unskilled labor and remain the under-trodden, 2nd-class citizens that the majority of the population of Ukraine believe that they are.</p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jeff-mowatt/disposable-humanity">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jeff-mowatt/disposable-humanity#comments corruption orphans poverty prostitution suicide trafficking ukraine Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:56:38 -0400 Jeff Mowatt 2505 at http://www.netsquared.org