Biologically, a child (plural: children) is generally a human between the stages of birth and puberty. Some vernacular definitions of a child include the fetus, as being an unborn child. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. "Child" may also describe a relationship with a parent or authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of nature" or "a child of the Sixties".

Contents

• 1 Legal, biological, and social definitions
  • 1.1 As a non-adult
• 2 Attitudes toward children
• 3 Socialization
• 4 Age of responsibility
• 5 Child mortality
• 6 One child policy
• 7 See also
• 8 References
• 9 External links

Noun

children pl. (irregular plural of child)

1. More than one son or daughter, or none. Offspring.

   Do you have children?

   Yes, I have three children.

   No, I have no children.

2. More than one young person, or none.

   There are no children absent from classes today

3. Members of a tribe.

   The children of Israel

4. (figuratively) Things or abstractions derived from or caused by something.

   Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.

   • 1991, Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (title)

• (more than one son or daughter): kids (people, goats), offspring, spawn (fish, frogs), litter (dogs, etc)
• (more than one young person): boys and girls, brats
• (members of a tribe): kinfolk, clan
• (figurative derivation): product

Quotes regarding children.

See also: Childhood

Contents

• 1 Sourced
  • 1.1 Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
• 2 Unsourced
• 3 See also
• 4 External links