The legislation has always referred to children in the year before they enter formal education.

In Argentina the word refers to male children who try to act like they are adults.

Before that, the word could refer only to children too young to attend school.

"Overweight" and "obese" are terms sometimes used when referring to children who weigh more than expected.

In legal contexts, the phrase is used to refer to unborn children.

Child mortality rate, which refers to children between the age of one and five years, also drastically inclined from 56 to 131 per 1,000.

The latter sentence refers to children in general, perhaps all or most of them.

It can be used as an endearing suffix while referring to children.

As in the last show, several works refer to children.

"At risk" refers to children who, because of their social and economic circumstances, are statistically likely to drop out before finishing high school.