Tsunami parents forced to give up children - World - Times Online

Tsunami parents forced to give up children - World - Times Online: "Tsunami parents forced to give up children
Nick Meo

Parents impoverished by the 2004 tsunami are still being forced to put their children into orphanages because they cannot afford to care for them, according to a British charity.

Thousands of children in the Indonesian province of Aceh have been institutionalised, even though more than 85 per cent have at least one living parent and 42 per cent have both parents alive."