In my experience, the people who use the term orphan Thanksgiving or even orphan Christmas seem to be blissfully unaware that it’s even possible to have abusive relatives, or to have lost your parents, or to have been abandoned by your parents, or to have been kicked out of your home by your parents, or to have had to make the difficult choice to run away from or stop speaking to your family because they were unsafe, which, yes, is a thing.
