"We've been made painfully aware of the plight of the Afghan children. One in three Afghan children is an orphan. Almost half of Afghan children suffer from malnutrition. One in four Afghan children won't live beyond their fifth birthday," President George W. Bush, December 8, 2001.
President Bush addresses participants in the first-ever White House Conference on Missing, Exploited, and Runaway Children Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Conference Center in Washington, D.C.