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Funny because "fixing an orphan" is hard in real life (assuming they've lost both their parents, you have to find them a foster home) but easy in typesetting (j
by Biganon 2mo ago
Funny because "fixing an orphan" is hard in real life (assuming they've lost both their parents, you have to find them a foster home) but easy in typesetting (just add an empty line before), whereas "fixing a widow" is easy in real life (just remarry) but hard in typesetting.
- 1718627440 2mo agoHow is finding one person suitable to be a parent (to make them a foster parent) differently hard, than finding another person suitable to be a parent (to marry them)?
- dash2 2mo agoFewer people want to foster than to have their own kids?
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- 1718627440 2mo agoFor a foster parent you only need to find someone willing to adopt a child, which already register themself into a list. For marriage you need to find someone willing to marry and to marry you out of random people.
- thfuran 2mo agoAlso, marriage doesn’t imply children.
- 1718627440 2mo agoDepends, but I see what you mean.
- IAmBroom 2mo agoNever "depends". Marriage doesn't guarantee children, nor even the desire to try for them, both of which can occur without marriage.
- IAmBroom 2mo agoSorta. Neither the human orphan nor the widow is fixed by your description; they simply aren't alone either more. The child is still an orphan; the woman a widow.
- pflenker 2mo agoThe explanation for the German words (widow = Schusterjunge, which means cobbler‘s boy, orphan = hurenkind, as mentioned in another comment) is also applicable for the English ones: An orphan doesn’t know where it comes from, a widow doesn’t know where she will go.