1.   Around the world, they cause the deaths of three and a half million children every year.

2.   Each year five million children die from the lethal effects of diarrhoea, four million from respiratory diseases like T B and bronchitis.

3.   Approximately the same number of children each year die in bicycle accidents.

4.   Automobiles driven recklessly also kill plenty of children every year.

5.   Didi Underwood of Holliston, Mass. is a typical client, who sought the help of Issokson when she was pregnant with her second child this year.

6.   Every year children from ethnic minorities are railroaded into bilingual classes even if they speak English at home.

7.   Feeding formula to babies whose mothers have HIV could save tens of thousands of children each year.

8.   Every now and then through the years one child or another would go up there with the idea of propping up the little shack and using it again.

9.   Forced to care for hundreds of mentally ill children each year, Texas juvenile correction centers are changing the way they do business.

10.   He and his wife, Ann, had their first child this year.