11.   For the abandoned children, Thomas organized Christmas parties with a Santa and a bag of toys.

12.   Having health officials count each abandoned child will spur policy-makers to develop ways to combat the problem, House members said in passing the resolution.

13.   Holt first attracted national attention when she and her husband, Harry, adopted eight abandoned children whose fathers were American soldiers.

14.   International aid agencies acknowledge that the need for institutions for abandoned children, as well as ordinary schools, in the Congo is immense.

15.   It details the horrors in which abandoned Chinese children lived and reasons for believing that Chinese officials knew the treatment would end in death.

16.   Many are the abandoned children of prostitutes.

17.   No one knows for sure how many abandoned children there are, but the number is in the thousands in Port-au-Prince alone.

18.   On one of his first mornings there, Dowell entered a building filled with abandoned children and found them huddling on concrete floors in their own excrement.

19.   She went on to set up welfare institutions ranging from a family clinic, to mobile leprosy clinics, to nurseries for abandoned children.