Among New York City's homeless families are Yolanda Walker, 42 years old, and her four children, including a disabled daughter.

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Mr. Ergen, 59 years old, says four of his five children have stopped paying for a TV subscription, and the fifth is living home.

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Each night, thousands of children, some only four or five years old, leave their villages and walk for miles to the safety of Gulu, the biggest town in northern Uganda.

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The 52-year-old was jailed for four-and-a-half years and banned from working with children.

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Kamran Nazeer was four years old when he started school in the 1980s, a special school in New York City for autistic children.

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His mother, Mamie Connolly, soon tired of looking after two children on her own and walked out on both of them when Billy was barely four years old.

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