Term has many and varied definitions depending on context, but is generally accepted as the period in life between birth and puberty, although this can be argued. Can also refer to offspring at any stage in life.
Questions tagged [children]
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Were children safer in the good old days?
Edited, as every site I found in my search last night gave me sites that all say the same thing:
The perception is that the world is a really dangerous place for children these days
But the statistics I seem to find online seem to imply that despite…
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Is this Swedish government pamphlet a guide for men who have married underage girls?
From this tweet, by a tweeter who claims to be located in Sweden:
No Joke: Sweden’s board of health and welfare and the migration authority just released this pamphlet called “information to the person who is married to a child”, meant to help…
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Is the depiction of nudity or sex harmful to minors?
In other words, are the censorship & ratings of movies and other forms of art based on something more than nothing? ;) Or, in a broader sense, I am questioning the very widespread belief that kids should not be allowed to watch anything…
user288
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Are statistics in controversial Australian antigay posters true?
According to the photo of an anti-gay poster depicted here:
92% of children of gay parents are abused
51% have depression
72% are obese
My questions:
Are these stats supported by other studies? If not, how much do they deviate from other…
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Is there any harm in forcing/re-educating a left-handed child to use their right hand?
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Many of my relatives were subjected by their parents to a "training process" to "prevent" left-hand-dominance. This method started at a very young age and basically consisted of politely instructing the child to switch hands whenever…
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Does the "sugar high" exist at all?
I've heard numerous times that eating1 a high quantity of sugar will give you a "sugar high" or "sugar buzz"
The high one gets after consuming large amounts of sugar. Also called a "sugar rush." Sugar highs cause twitchiness, spasms, and hyper…
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Are guns the number one killer of children in the US?
Joe Biden, in his speech on June 2, said that guns are the number one killer of children, even more than car accidents. Is this claim true?
According to new data just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, guns are the No. 1…
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Do children accidentally suffocate themselves with plastic bags?
My one year old daughter picked up a typical plastic supermarket grocery bag and I watched her with it briefly before taking it away, as it's common knowledge that kids aren't supposed to have plastic bags due to a risk of suffocation.
After…
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Do school uniforms improve student behavior?
Many of the advocates of school uniforms claim that uniforms for students in K-12 reduce behavior problems such as bullying.
What evidence exists to support or contradict these claims?
For example, it's fair to say that students are less likely to…
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Is the number of childhood vaccines correlated with infant mortality?
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Just how inaccurate are vaccine myths?
Is it dangerous to have several vaccines at the same time?
I was passed along an article reporting that a new study found that despite having the highest number of vaccines in its recommended…
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Do children who kill animals turn out to be violent?
It is widely claimed that children who injure or kill animals as children are more likely to exhibit violent behavior as adults, committing domestic violence or murder. A site dedicated to discussing "killer kids" describes "cruelty to animals &…
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Does banning fictional portrayal of child abuse reduce actual child abuse?
The United Kingdom's Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (part 2, chapter 2) makes possession of images portraying fictional child abuse punishable by law. Wikipedia has a summary, but here's a snip from the primary-source legalese:
(5) “Child”, subject…
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Can social isolation kill babies?
According to the Wikipedia page for Language Deprivation Experiments,
An experiment allegedly carried out by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the 13th century saw young infants raised without human interaction in an attempt to determine if there…
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Were mixed race kids theorized to look like zebras?
I came across this QI tweet: Meet the quagga, an extinct subspecies of zebra with only half the stripes!#QI. There's a video clip and at around ~0:31 seconds the following is said:
I went to school in Kenya and we read early colonial books and they…
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During the Iran-Iraq war, did the Iranians use small children to trip land mines planted by Iraq?
I'm reading one of Paul Theroux's books, which was published in 2006 during the height of the second Gulf War, and there is a passage in it in which the author apparently claims the activity described in the title of this question:
“We were a…
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