pull child pages of a specific parent to say the home page

Any idea how I can conver this to pull the child pages of a specific parent to any page?

this works great with categories and posts..

<ul>
               <?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?>

					<?php query_posts("category_name='featured-articles'&showposts=3"); ?>

					<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

  						<li class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
                        	<div class="news">
                    			<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
								<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

                                <p><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">MORE ></a></p>
                    		</div>

						</li>

					<?php endwhile; ?>
                	</ul>

Thanks for any advice!