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Child: Human Birth Puberty Minor Age of Majority Sons Daughters Authority Figure

Biologically, a child is a human between birth and puberty. Legally, a child refers to a minor under the age of majority. A child can also describe a relationship with a parent regardless of age or membership in a group, and can signify being affected by a time, place, or circumstance. There are many social issues that affect children, such as education, bullying, poverty, and hunger.

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Child: Human Birth Puberty Minor Age of Majority Sons Daughters Authority Figure

Biologically, a child is a human between birth and puberty. Legally, a child refers to a minor under the age of majority. A child can also describe a relationship with a parent regardless of age or membership in a group, and can signify being affected by a time, place, or circumstance. There are many social issues that affect children, such as education, bullying, poverty, and hunger.

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Child

Biologically, a child (plural: children) is generally a human between the stages of birth
and puberty.
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he legal definition of child generally refers to a minor, otherwise
!nown as a person younger than the age of ma"ority.
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Child may also describe a relationship with a parent (such as sons and daughters of any
age)
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or, metaphorically, an 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 &i'ties%.
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here are many social issues that affect children, such as childhood education, bullying,
child po)erty, dysfunctional families and in de)eloping countries, hunger. *hildren can
be raised by parents, in a foster care or similar super)ised arrangement, guardians or
partially raised in a day care center.

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