Again, she notes that it's her pleasure to help this poor, parentless boy.

The Pentagon released the figure under pressure for details about children left parentless in the war.

She came to the ruin, parentless and wearing a long, used coat.

Which created a huge population of healthy but parentless babes.

Whatever lay ahead now, could it be worse than starving or living as a parentless child in constant fear?

They were happy to: it was a parentless paradise.

She, too, had begun as a parentless child, seconded to the cause.

The siblings were left parentless at an early age and thus took care of each other unconditionally.

A team of psychologists and psychiatric workers was sent to help the suddenly parentless begin to cope.

Heidi may be parentless but she's practical, making her a heroine children respect and like.

Readers have never seemed very worried about Eloise's basically parentless state.

Following a night of consuming much alcohol he finds a homeless and parentless young boy.

If Regina's mother had been killed in the attack, she would have been left parentless.

Repeatedly - and misleadingly - he calls them "parentless children."

A lonely girl child who is parentless longs for a true love and parental care.

So are they all, parentless and alone, and, in this production, emphatically present.

Although parentless, the quaddies themselves must someday-indeed, are already becoming parents.

In the new state, fostering was the only way to provide a home for orphaned and otherwise parentless children.

For a parentless child, being loved by everyone could not compensate for belonging to no one.

"We love this woman very much," a little parentless boy said of Miss Sumanth.

From that day on, Chronister says, it became painful to imagine the girl sitting parentless in an orphanage.

Something like one small boy, parentless and friendless, with an apparent affinity for winged things.

Under the care of a less loving soul, a child would surely fall into despair over this mundane, parentless existence.

A parentless piglet named Babe is chosen for a "guess the weight" booth at a county fair.