See also: Child (homonymy)

A child is a to be human whose development is between the Naissance and the Puberté.

Etymology

The origin of the word child is Latin E: infans meant, at the Romains, “that which does not speak”. The concept of childhood and the related values evolved/moved much there of the Antiquité at our days, according to civilizations, the social classes and the contexts and the personality of the parents.

Child and kind

A child of female Sexe is called young girl then girl and of male sex a small boy, then a Garçon ( wire ) then young man with adolescence.

Physiology

Put aside the sexual organs, the hair and the relative proportions of the body, the young children differ little physically from the adults: great differentiations occur with puberty through the hormonal modifications.

Stages of childhood

They varied much in space and time. It is today generally: New born and Infant (baby), then Early childhood.
La period of childhood relates to in Europe the 6-13 years.
Aux the United States, the period of childhood is considered started at 3 years and finished around 7 years. And the 8-13 years are regarded as préadolescents.

Legal recognition

For the Law, a person who is not Adulte is called minor. In much of country, this limit is fixed at 18 years. In France, the law offers a protection increased for the minors. There exists in this country a “Juge of the children” the judge of the children is in charge of the protection of the minors and the major young people up to 21 years.

The Pédiatrie is the branch of the Médecine dealing with the health of the children.

Particular meaning

The word “ Enfant ” is used in compromise Analyze in the States of Ego, it indicates a whole of behaviors.

Enfance is the autobiography of Nathalie Sarraute. Deliver writes in the form of a dialog between Nathalie Sarraute and her double which ensures the authenticity of its account by its interrogations, its warning statements.

Needs physico-psychological

All the children must find answer to some physico-psychological and emotional vital needs basic to be able to develop “normally” . Childhood and early childhood are famous being of the important periods for the formation of the personality of the future adult. August 1st

Popular denominations

• kid
• kid, kids
• kid, kid
• kid
• chiard
• jong (Picardy patois)
• minot

See too

1. Justice & Childhood:

• Convention of the rights of the child | Text of Convention
• Mediator of the Republic
• Defender of the children
• Judge of the children

2. Protection of the children:

• Protection of youth in France
• Maternal protection and infantile
• Defender of the children
• OPEJ

3. Abuse on the children:

* Ill-treatment of the children

* Ill-treatment on minor

* Sexual abuse on minor

* Work the children

4. Knowledge of the child:

• Development of the child
• Innocence
• Right of the child (category) ~ Child welfare
• Intelligence
• Donald Winnicott
• Psychology of the development
• Zone proximale of development

5. Education:

• Sciences of education
• Psychology of education
• History of education
• Popular education
• School | School at the house
• Teaching
• Freedom of education
• Economy of education

6. Various:

• Exceptionally gifted Work the children

• List of children in the history
• premature Child
• interior Child

Bond

• In Switzerland, Pro Juventute is a foundation which comes to assistance of childhood and the family.

Simple: Child Zh-yue: 細路

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