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child

Also known as children, kid

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A child is a juvenile human produced by Homo sapiens. The term has the female form of label niña. It is distinct from the terms child and Kind. The subject possesses the characteristic of childhood.

It is categorized under Category:Children and appears in the Commons gallery Child. The topic is described by sources including the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, the Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. It is referenced by 2,079 other encyclopedia articles.

The subject is on the focus list of Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have and Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4. It holds the ACM Classification Code 10010931 and the NCI Thesaurus ID C16423. In PubMed, the query child yields a count of 3582107.

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Research

3,582,107 papers

Child-parent attachment and children's peer relations: a quantitative review.Developmental psychology · 2001Schneider BH, Atkinson L, Tardif C
Child’s dignity in suffering and death.ReviewPrzeglad lekarski · 2017Cepuch G, Kruszecka-Krówka A
The child's best interest in gamete donation.Bioethics · 2022Takes FDOI: 10.1111/bioe.12962
Child development and marital relations.ReviewChild development · 1998Fincham FD
The limping child's curvy diagnosis.Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2022Wong NX, Bartlett M, Roberts KDOI: 10.1111/jpc.15762
Children's voices--Differentiating a child perspective from a child's perspective.ReviewDevelopmental neurorehabilitation · 2015Nilsson S, Björkman B, Almqvist AL et al.DOI: 10.3109/17518423.2013.801529
Marital transitions. A child's perspective.ReviewThe American psychologist · 1989Hetherington EM, Stanley-Hagan M, Anderson ERDOI: 10.1037//0003-066x.44.2.303
A Systematic Review on Children's Participation in Healthcare From a Child's Perspective.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2025Hietanen M, Nahlén Bose C, Stålberg A et al.DOI: 10.1111/scs.70157

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Encyclopedic overview

33 sections

Contents

Biological, legal and social definitions
Developmental stages of childhood
Early childhood
Middle childhood
Late childhood
Developmental stages post-childhood
Adolescence
History
Modern concepts of childhood
Healthy childhoods
Role of parents
Children's health
Child protection
Play
Street culture
Geographies of childhood
Nature deficit disorder
Age of responsibility
Education
Attitudes toward children
Child marriage
Fertility and number of children per woman
Issues
Emergencies and conflicts
Child protection
Child abuse and child labor
Climate change
Health
Child mortality
See also
References
Sources
Further reading

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A child () is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of child generally refers to a minor, in this case as a person younger than the local age of majority (there are exceptions such as, for example, the consumption and purchase of alcoholic beverages even after said age of majority), regardless of their physical, mental and sexual development as biological adults. Children generally have fewer rights and responsibilities than adults. They are generally classed as unable to make serious decisions.

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