exceptional child [ atypical child | irregular child ]

digresser [ digressive member ]

Definition: Problems related to contact or attempted contact with the child's or the other person's breasts or genitals, sexual exposure in close confrontation or attempt to undress or seduce the child, by a substantially older person outside the child's family, either on the basis of this person's position or status or against the will of the child.

child protection [ child abuse | child soldier | ill-treated child | moral protection of children ]

Definition: Conduct disorder, usually occurring in younger children, primarily characterized by markedly defiant, disobedient, disruptive behaviour that does not include delinquent acts or the more extreme forms of aggressive or dissocial behaviour. The disorder requires that the overall criteria for F91.- be met; even severely mischievous or naughty behaviour is not in itself sufficient for diagnosis. Caution should be employed before using this category, especially with older children, because clinically significant conduct disorder will usually be accompanied by dissocial or aggressive behaviour that goes beyond ...[+++]mere defiance, disobedience, or disruptiveness.

Definition: An ill-defined disorder of uncertain nosological validity. The category is designed to include a group of children with severe mental retardation (IQ below 35) who show major problems in hyperactivity and in attention, as well as stereotyped behaviours. They tend not to benefit from stimulant drugs (unlike those with an IQ in the normal range) and may exhibit a severe dysphoric reaction (sometimes with psychomotor retardation) when given stimulants. In adolescence, the overactivity tends to be replaced by underactivity (a pattern that is not usual in hyperkinetic children with normal intelligence). This syndrome is also often associated with a variety of developmental delays, either specific or global. The ...[+++]extent to which the behavioural pattern is a function of low IQ or of organic brain damage is not known.

child care [ baby-sitting | child minding | children's home | crèche | day nursery | kindergarten | nursery ]

children's services worker | residential support worker (young people) | residential home young people care worker | support worker (young people in care)

child labour

The registry's mandate is to research, collect and analyse information and statistical data on missing children; to provide law enforcement agencies with a source to quickly obtain accurate information on the status of any missing child; to monitor the CPIC missing persons file to request or provide follow-up information and action on missing children investigations; to assist law enforcement agencies and other interested groups and organizations in obtaining information on missing children; to facilitate the correlation of information by publishing documents such as national bulletins on missing children; to co-ordinate and exchange information on prevention programs within the Canadian police community and groups searching for missin ...[+++]g children; to co-ordinate the travel/reunification program, which provides for the return of children abducted in Canada by a parent and using routes established by our sponsoring companies; to develop unique expertise in the area of missing children, such as developing psychological profiling of pedophiles and other socially deviant individuals who may be involved in the abduction and kidnapping of children; to promote its networking and collaborative efforts with all countries, but especially those belonging to the INTERPOL network and those that are signatories to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; to contribute to international efforts to obtain support for a co-operative global response to the issues of missing, abused and exploited children; and to develop specialized training and provide educational resources for police.

Parents who send their children to day care, to a playground, to school, to Scouts, to a club for children or teens need to be sure that these places are not teeming with sexual deviants.

Most children are not yet prepared for this type of content and there is the risk that they will grow up to be psychologically disturbed, deviant adults.

F. whereas it is difficult to classify precisely the reasons for which young people offend, the factors leading to antisocial and finally criminal forms of behaviour being different in each individual case, conditioned as they are by the experiences of each child or adolescent and the elements playing the most central role in their development: family, school, circles of friends and general economic and social circumstances,