Families and children without parents accounted for 60% of the 66,450 who were apprehended; they came predominantly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
It is often argued that children who are raised in this " parentless" environment lack the emotional support necessary for their psychological development.
When children are given too much, it undermines their respect for their parents. In fact, the children begin to sense that a parent's unlimited generosity is not right.
Most of the children who don't have parents to live with, who are orphans or who are taken away from their parents for a variety of reasons, don't live in orphanages, they live with individual families.