There are millions displaced here, thousands who have lost their loved ones, many more fighting for life. How could one explain what they are going through? Their fighting a battle to over come grief.

In this battle their stepping into levels of offenses in normal life. I hear stories where orphaned children have been taken in without any approval by grieving families that lost loved ones. The government and aid organizations have denounced this act and asked families to stop.

The families which are doing this are trying to deal with their own grief ... of having lost their children. But they must understand that this is not the way to go about it.

These incidents are been reported in large numbers from areas like Galle and Matara where children accounted for a third of the total number of victims. Government officials are advising people that they should follow the proper procedure of adoption to prevent long-term problems.

These are people whose hearts have been torn apart. They have lost everything they once held so dearly. But their overcoming of grief has broken laws and put orphans' futures on risk. It's hard to understand whether they are concerned about responsibility when they have lost all sense of it. But we are talking about the lives of children, which could be everything for a country's future.