A child (plural: children) is a human between the stages of birth and puberty. 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."

Legal definitions

Population aged under 15 years in 2005

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as "a human being below the age of 18 years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier." Biologically, a child is anyone in the developmental stage of childhood, between infancy and adulthood.

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What age does a child have to be to babysit?
Q. I have three children, the oldest being 10. How old does the law require a child to be before they are allowed to babysit younger children in Texas?
Asked by richards150 - Thu Aug 23 01:34:18 2007 - - 4 Answers - 1 Comments

A. Law states a child must be 12 years old atleast to be responsible for another child.
Answered by momof3boys - Thu Aug 23 01:50:47 2007

What are the effects of procreating a child under the influences of drugs?
Q. Like, perscription drugs, or narcotics like amphedimines or the like.What could happen to the child if it is made under the influence? For instance, how many of these one night stands and the like create a child while under such influences that are not suitable to create a child. Does it really effect a baby in the long run from that point on, or does it happen further along in the development of the child while being carried in the mother? At what point does it show the effects?
Asked by unknown - Wed Mar 28 13:02:44 2007 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Whether or not the parents are drunk or high at the time of conception really has no scientific evidence of being harmful for the child. Now, if the mother continues to abuse alcohol or drugs (prescription or otherwise) during her pregnancy, the effects on the child will most likely be harmful. Depending upon how severe the substance abuse is, the result could show at birth or it could take days, weeks or even months. There are too many factors to give a definitive answer to this question, but it was a great one!
Answered by itsjustme - Wed Mar 28 13:42:49 2007

What is your opinion of child pertective services?
Q. In order for cps to stand they have to have kids in the system so the state can pay there jobs. The stategives up to 4000 dollars per normal children adopted and 2000 dollars more for a mentally challenged adopted child. If the child goes in to a mental instiution and is on more that 16 drugs a day they get more money.
Asked by momma - Sat Mar 1 21:44:56 2008 - - 11 Answers - 0 Comments

A. It, like any business or govenment agency has flaws, and serious one's at that. It would however be a very bad thing for so many children if it ceased to exist because the fact is there are so many abused children who were saved by the system.
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Quotes regarding children.

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  • Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea...Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
  • You can't raise a child in a vacuum. All that carpet dust will clog up the kid's lungs.