Facts about Children

Adolescents are, however, expected to being working part-time while completing their education; all children, including those in early childhood, are expected to help with household chores to the extent that they are physically able.

Prior to the seventeenth century, children, once weaned and grown beyond infancy, were regarded as mini-adults.

Children are not expected to do chores until adolescence, have no rules governing their daily life, and are rarely disciplined except for wasting food.

Despite cultural variations, children have been and are regarded by families and societies as valuable, albeit in some cases only potentially.

After this age, the children are privileged to participate in all areas of Jewish community life and bear their own responsibility for Jewish ritual law, tradition, and ethics.

Adults remain the children of their parents, no matter what their age.

The death rate—mortality—in children, infants, and mothers giving birth has declined dramatically with modernization.

More than just condemning infanticide, Christianity taught concern for children.

Social attitudes toward children differ around the world, and these attitudes have changed over time.

Attachment theory, developed by John Bowlby, suggests that children form "inner working models" for all future relationships from the interactions they have with their first caretakers—usually their mothers.

Infant baptism is the Christian religious practice of baptizing infants or young children as a mark of entering the faith and thus being able to receive the grace consequent upon this.

Children are the future of any society; for human society to be successful caring for the children is of the highest priority.

Development is a process involving an interaction between children and their world (Lansdown and Walker 1991).

A child (plural: children) is a boy or girl who has not reached puberty, but also refers to offspring of any age.

Changes in nutrition and other factors have led to increase in the size and rate of growth of children, including earlier onset of puberty.

Child labor increased with the Industrial revolution, but then decreased as legislation was enacted to limit exploitation of children as workers and to improve their education.

Concurrent with these academic views has been greater societal awareness of children as in need of care, attention, and protection.