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Nowadays more than 1,200 children are without parental care [in Yerevan], spending their unguided childhood in various specialized institutions. The UN Children Foundations survey shows that 400 of those children are abandoned by their parents and the other 800 have weak and insignificant social and emotional contacts with their families. In other words, these children are either abandoned or one step away from being abandoned. Unfortunately this phenomenon has become a very obvious problem in Armenian society [of Armenia].
The Yerevan Child Care and Protection Boarding School N0.1 houses some 80 of these vulnerable children whose families are unable or unwilling to care for them. Some of the children are orphans.
(the above 2 paragraphs were taken from an AMAA newsletter article of Summer 2009 issue)
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