But there is a cost in trying to protect "fragile" children from harm and, perhaps, from themselves.
He is a fragile child that does not want to see disgusting things or else he feels faint.
James wondered how a child so fragile had survived among a crew of murderous brutes.
But the bureaucracy needs to remember that these cases involve children, immature by definition and often fragile.
And in yet another case, agency workers gave a fragile, days-old child to a foster parent whom it never informed of the baby's medical condition.
He reminded himself that she was no fragile child anymore, if she had ever been.
A fragile child, Mary suffered from a number of physical complaints.
Her supporters, including parents of other medically fragile children, contend the case is a witch hunt.
Because the Princess was a fragile and sick child, the King decided to marry again.
She was a pretty child, fair like her father, but fragile, and always crying.