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Postcard depicting eight black children, titled "Eight Little Pickaninnies Kneeling in a row, Puerto Rico", published in 1902 or 1903.. The origins of the word pickaninny (and its alternative spellings picaninny and piccaninny) are disputed; it may derive from the Portuguese term for a small child, pequenino, meaning "tiny". [3]
a playground apparatus composed of bars for children to climb on [54] (jungle gym in U.S.) clingfilm thin plastic film for wrapping food (US: plastic wrap, Saran wrap) cobblers * shoe repairers; (slang) a weaker version of bollocks, meaning 'nonsense' (often "a load of old cobblers"), from rhyming slang 'cobbler's awls' = balls cock-up, cockup *
Familicide – is a multiple-victim homicide where a killer's spouse and children are slain (Latin: familia "family"). Filicide – the act of a parent killing their child (Latin: filius "son" and Latin: filia "daughter"). Fratricide – the act of killing a brother (Latin: frater "brother"); also, in military context, death by friendly fire.
Voluntary childlessness or childfreeness [1] [2] is the voluntary choice not to have children. Use of the word "childfree" was first recorded in 1901 [3] and entered common usage among feminists during the 1970s. [4] The suffix -free refers to the freedom and personal choice of those to pick this lifestyle.
Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. The word filicide is derived from the Latin words filius and filia ('son' and 'daughter') and the suffix -cide, from the word caedere meaning 'to kill'.
A child (pl. children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, [1] [2] or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. [3]
Feral children lack the basic social skills that are normally learned in the process of enculturation.For example, they may be unable to learn to use a toilet, have trouble learning to walk upright after walking on all fours their whole lives, or display a complete lack of interest in the human activity around them.
An unaccompanied minor (sometimes "unaccompanied child" or "separated child") is a child without the presence of a legal guardian.. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child defines unaccompanied minors and unaccompanied children as those "who have been separated from both parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, is responsible for doing so."