Anonymous wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/after-md-crash-killing-5-families-must-determine-care-for-10-kids-who-lost-moms/2014/10/14/c6fad55e-53b7-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html
The one woman had 8 kids.
And no, they are not orphans unless their father(s )are also dead. The article doesn't mention anything about them.
Actually it does:
“She was just doing her motherly duties,” said Anthony Hardy, 22, Curtis’s stepson. “She did everything a mother was supposed to do. She put her children before everyone.”
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"Hardy said his father will take care of Curtis’s two oldest children, Hardy’s half brother and half sister. The family is still making arrangements for the others. Fundraising Web sites have been set up for the family, both to pay for burials and the care of the children who have lost their mothers."
So the father of the step-child will take care of the next two oldest children. The family is still trying to make arrangements for the other children, which sounds as if the other father(s) are not in the picture.