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Without having seen the statistics, I suspect you're talking about kids in need of foster care, rather than orphans. There's no way that the parents of 2-5% of children in the US are both dead.
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The statistics were broken down between children who have two parents, children who have one parent, and children who have none. They did not state the circumstances in which the child was parentless, so it could go either way I suppose.
If you want to get into the semantics of the word "orphan", I'm using it to refer to kids who do not know or live with their biological parents. I have a friend who worked for a foster care agency, and she's told me that most of the kids either don't know who their parents are, or don't know where they went. Finding a lifelong foster home is the ultimate goal of most of these places. Whether or not that's technically 'adoption' of an 'orphan' seems kind of irrelevant at that point. It's a kid who needs a stable and permanent home. CPS understands the effect that constantly changing homes/families can have on a child, so the pressure is on them to get it right the first time.
