Child (disambiguation)
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Child normally refers to a child
Child
Biologically, a child 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...

, a person who is not yet an adult.

The term may also refer to:
  • Child (surname)
    Child (surname)
    Child is a surname, and may refer to:* Arthur Child - Canadian businessman* Desmond Child - American musician and songwriter* Francis James Child - American scholar and folklorist* Fred Child - American radio host* George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey...


In psychology

  • Child abuse
    Child abuse
    Child abuse is the physical, sexual, emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Children And Families define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or...

  • Child development
    Child development
    Child development stages describe theoretical milestones of child development. Many stage models of development have been proposed, used as working concepts and in some cases asserted as nativist theories....

  • Child neglect
    Child neglect
    Child neglect is defined as:# "the failure of a person responsible for a child’s care and upbringing to safeguard the child’s emotional and physical health and general well-being"...

  • Child-on-child sexual abuse
    Child-on-child sexual abuse
    Child-on-child sexual abuse refers to a form of child sexual abuse in which a prepubescent child is sexually abused by one or more other children or adolescent youths, and in which no adult is directly involved. The term describes sexual activity between children that occurs without consent,...

  • Child sexual abuse
    Child sexual abuse
    Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities , indecent exposure with intent to gratify their own sexual desires or to...

  • Child support
    Child support
    In family law and public policy, child support is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child following the end of a marriage or other relationship...

  • Parental abuse by children

In computer science

  • A child object
    Object (computer science)
    In computer science, an object is any entity that can be manipulated by the commands of a programming language, such as a value, variable, function, or data structure...

     is derived from a parent object through any generalization of the Unified Modeling Language
  • The child node
    Tree (data structure)
    In computer science, a tree is a widely-used data structure that emulates a hierarchical tree structure with a set of linked nodes.Mathematically, it is an ordered directed tree, more specifically an arborescence: an acyclic connected graph where each node has zero or more children nodes and at...

     of a data structure tree.
  • The child process
    Child process
    A child process in computing is a process created by another process .A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In UNIX, a child process is in fact created as a copy of the parent...

     created by another process.

In medicine

  • CHILD
    Child
    Biologically, a child 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...

     (congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects), a genetic syndrome

In chivalry

  • A noble boy in the early stages of knighthood (Childe)
  • In "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
    Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
    "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is a poem by English author Robert Browning, written in 1855 and first published that same year in the collection entitled Men and Women. The title, which forms the last words of the poem, is a line from William Shakespeare's play King Lear...

    ", a 1855 poem by Robert Browning

In entertainment

  • Child (magazine)
    Child (magazine)
    Child is a discontinued American parenting magazine founded by Jackie Leo and MaryAnn Sommers in 1986 and published through 2007. It was originally backed by Italian publishers, then sold to The New York Times Magazine Group which published it until 1995 along with its other women’s magazines,...

    , an American parenting magazine published from 1986 to 2007
  • "Child" (song)
    Child (song)
    "Child" is the debut single from former Take That band member, Mark Owen. The single was released on November 1, 1996. It was the first single to be released from his debut album, Green Man. The single peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the joint-most successful single of his whole...

    , a song by Mark Owen
  • Child Ballads
    Child Ballads
    The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century...

    , a collection of traditional folk tunes

Children

  • Children (play)
    Children (play)
    Children is an early play by American playwright A. R. Gurney. It was first produced in London in 1974 and was inspired by John Cheever's short story "Goodbye My Brother" A 2009 production starring Judith Light gave the play a new ending, and received positive reviews.-Plot:Randy and Barbara,...

    , a play by A. R. Gurney
  • Children (2006 film), an Icelandic film
  • Children (2011 film)
    Children (2011 film)
    Children is a 2011 South Korean film, based on a true story about an unsolved murder case.-Plot summary:On March 26, 1991, five boys went to Mount Waryong to catch frogs but never returned...

    , a South Korean film
  • "Children" (song)
    Children (song)
    "Children" is a single by electronica composer Robert Miles from his album Dreamland. "Children" is Miles' most successful single, being certified Gold and Platinum in several countries and it reaching #1 in more than 12 countries...

    , a single by Robert Miles
  • Children (David Murray album)
    Children (David Murray album)
    Children is the eighth album by David Murray to be released on the Italian Black Saint label. It was released in 1984 and features performances by Murray, James "Blood" Ulmer, Don Pullen, Lonnie Plaxico and Marvin "Smitty" Smith....

     (1984)
  • Children (The Mission album) (1988)
  • Mr. Children
    Mr. Children
    , commonly called , is a Japanese rock band formed in 1988 by Kazutoshi Sakurai, Kenichi Tahara, Keisuke Nakagawa, and Hideya Suzuki. As a group, they are one of the most successful Japanese rock artists, having sold over 50 million records and creating the in the mid 1990s in Japan...

    , a Japanese rock band
  • "Children", a song by EMF on their album Schubert Dip
    Schubert Dip
    Schubert Dip is the debut album by the rock band EMF, released in 1991 on Parlophone Records. The name is a pun on the name of the popular sweet Sherbet Dip and the 19th-century composer Franz Schubert.-Track listing:...

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