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4. According to Etymology Online, the use of "kid" to refer to a human child was established in informal English usage by 1812, but was used as slang (not sure what the difference is in connotation here between "informal" and "slang") as early as 1590. The term may have first been applied to human children in reference to similarities between a ...
Your relationship to the child would refer to how you were related to him/her, e.g. guardian, father, mother, uncle, etc, while your relationship with the child would indicate how well you get along. This distinction is debatable, though, and it is obviously inconsequential in a form such as those you fill, where the intended meaning is clear.
They use "ward" to cover all the bases -- it includes the children with parents, guardians, under temporary custody for some reason, etc. It avoids awkward wordings when simply saying "child" might be taken to mean your biological child and cause confusion. –
@Anton It appears in quite a lot of traditional ballads going back well before the mid 1800s. For example the possibly sixteenth century Scottish ballad "Four Marys" which has the line "Mary Hamilton's born a babe to the highest Stuart of all" and "Bogey's Bonny Belle" (which is nineteeth century) has the line "when nine long months had passed and gone she bore to me a son".
"Some of the parents saw their relationship with their child(ren) as strained." I use the Canadian Style Guide primarily but I can't find anything in it about using something like "child(ren)". Part of the problem is that I don't even know what to look for in the guide. I tried to Google it, but same problem.
5. You can't really change the meaning of a word to suit your taste. "Love child" refers to a child born to parents not married to each other, and that is what people take away from it. If you ignore what others think and only pay attention to how you mean a word, you will cause your listeners or readers confusion or merriment.
A very small or tiny child. '2. A very small drinking-vessel; a child's mug. (See also quot. 1845.) Chiefly dial. '3. A minute quantity of anything, esp. of drink; a dram; also, anything very small. [Quotes inserted because otherwise stackexchange replaces my '2' and '3' with '1' and '2']. So the implication is that it comes from the "small ...
This is for a professional blog post, so I'd rather stay away from "red-headed step-child". I can't use "second-class citizen" because I'm talking about a topic with very few similar posts and one related post uses that same term. If I really need to use "second-class citizen" then I'll probably just reference the other post.
child of her times. ...means that her thoughts and views were created during her formative period as a child by the circumstances and daily reality that surrounded her, as well as by the philosophy that supported paternalism and permeated Chinese thinking of the time. Share. Improve this answer.
Only is occasionally used as a noun meaning "an only child": Most adult onlys acknowledge that there are definite advantages to their only-child status. No wonder that parents say, on population surveys, that one of the most important reasons for having a second child is to prevent the first from becoming an only.