Abstract:The “orphan" in China's current levels of legal norms,policy and administration has different connotations,which has brought chaos and misunderstandings of the word,as well as the imbalance in implementing the policy. In the legal sense,an orphan should be both a minor in the form and one who has lost his (her) parents in such conditions. We do not have to deliberately expand its connotation to make it in conflict with the common sense. As for the orphans to be helped and adopted by the expansion of the connotation,we can use the technical approach of “treating in accordance with the orphans".
Key words:earthquake;placement;orphan