* 4 yrs - the average time a child spends in American foster care before being adopted
* 1.5 million children live in public care in Central and Eastern Europe
* 12.4 million orphans live in Latin America and the Carribean
* 43.4 million orphans live in sub-Saharan Africa
* 87.6 million orphans live in Asia
* 16 million children were orphaned in 2003
* Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned as a result of AIDS
* 800,000 children in the American Foster Care system each year
* 143 Million orphans in the world
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