Orphan
A child whose parents are gone — a young person growing up without the original line of care.
An orphan in a dream is the dream's image of a young person growing up without the original line of care. The orphan is not necessarily alone; the absence is specifically of the first adults. The dream brings the orphan when something in your life — a person who lost their parents young, a part of yourself that never had the early support it needed, a household running on substitutes — is being carried by a structure that grew up around a missing centre. An orphan met by a community willing to share the parenting is the dream affirming the honest substitute. An orphan left to raise themselves, with no adult stepping in, is the dream noting that the original absence has been compounded by a second, chosen absence on the part of the community that could have helped.