* " Mars is No Place for Children " ( 1999 ) by Mary A. Turzillo, a Nebula-award winning novella about a child growing up on Mars.

Children growing up in a dysfunctional family have been known to adopt one or more of these six basic roles:

Her book, Children of Glasnost ( 1990 ) described growing up in the Soviet Union, and how that changed as Russian society became more open.

Beginning life in rented rooms in the Kanda YMCA, the Tokyo School for Foreign Children, as it was then known, quickly attracted a growing numbers of students from around the world and soon needed to move to a more permanent home in Tsukiji.

An orphan, Wilson's earliest years were spent growing up in a San Francisco, California orphanage, an experience he reminisced upon in his book, These Were the Children.

A Children ’ s Story (), also known as Certain Children in Australia, was directed by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi in 2004 and is an Italian film which focuses on the life of an eleven year old boy growing up in an environment of poverty and criminality in Naples.

Children are growing increasingly distant from their environment, which raises a concern that conservational efforts in the future will diminish.

Due to the growing popularity of the Fox network and shows such as The Simpsons and Married With Children, the station quickly grew.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

Children were often placed at the front of this enclosure and the area had a distinctive white picket fence to keep fans off the pitch ( up until the 70's ).

Children can dress up in various forms ; for example characters from history or fiction like pirates, princesses or cowboys, common jobs like nurses or police officers, or animals such as those seen in zoos or farms.

Children employed as mule scavenger by cotton mills would crawl under machinery to pick up cotton, working 14 hours a day, six days a week.

Palin was instrumental in setting up the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in 1993.

The appearance of The Satanic Verses brought back up the controversy surrounding Mahfouz's novel Children of Gebelawi.

Children need more sleep per day in order to develop and function properly: up to 18 hours for newborn babies, with a declining rate as a child ages.

* April 15 – Save the Children Fund set up in the UK to raise money for the relief of German and Austrian children.

In response to criticisms expressed in the 1998 review by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva, the Irish government established the office of Ombudsman for Children and drew up a national children's strategy.

Children of migrants who were born in Germany and grew up in these ethnic enclaves carry the norms and traditions of their parents ' culture and the dominant society.

Some charities and volunteer organizations have also been founded as gifts to, or in honour of, some of Canada's monarchs or members of the Royal Family, such as the Victorian Order of Nurses ( a gift to Queen Victoria for her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 ), the Canadian Cancer Fund ( set up in honour of King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935 ), and the Queen Elizabeth II Fund to Aid in Research on the Diseases of Children.

Children are locked up in adult detention centres and prisons in shameful conditions.

They have much interaction with the Children, including the Númenóreans ( appearing later: Men of the West, an island sea-people, founders of Gondor and ancestors of Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings ; the fate of the Númenóreans, and so the fate of all the later histories, is wrapped up tightly with " the Sea ".

Upon her graduation in medicine, Bashir took up a posting as a junior resident medical officer at St Vincent's Hospital and then to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children.

Before European contact, the area that today makes up Jasper County was the domain of the Osage Native Americans who called themselves the Children of the Middle Waters ( Ni-U-Kon-Ska ).

* Jane Feldman, Shannon Lanier, Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family: ( Random House, 2001 ), for ages 10 and up

In Children of the Dream, Bruno Bettelheim quoted a kibbutz friend, " at a time when the American girls preen themselves, and try to show off as much as possible sexually, our girls cover themselves up and refuse to wear clothing that might show their breasts or in any other fashion be revealing.

Children in grades K-2 attend Willow, then move on to Churchill for grades 3 and 4, then move on to Millennium for grades 5 and 6, and finish up grades 7 and 8 at James Hart.

Children — who up until the age of three were required by custom to have shaven heads — were allowed to grow out their hair.

The Emergency signals the end of the potency of the Midnight Children, and there is little left for Saleem to do but pick up the few pieces of his life he may still find and write the chronicle that encompasses both his personal history and that of his still-young nation ; a chronicle written for his son, who, like his father, is both chained and supernaturally endowed by history.

The Shiloh communities and the Children of God attracted many new recruits while many other communes and fellowships sprang up.

The Lubavitcher chasidim have a tradition that the Hebrew letters that make up the word rebbe are also an acronym for " Rosh Bnei Yisroel ", meaning " a spiritual head of the Children of Israel ".

The Emil books had an important role in popularising the sub-genre of " Children Detectives ", later taken up by other writers of children's books such as Enid Blyton.

After being ordered to fire warning shots from her 50 calibre machinegun to make the boat turn back she saw it beginning to break up and sink with a father on board holding out his young daughter that she might be saved ( see Children Overboard Affair ).

Children who had grown up in households where ' tha ' was the norm were forcibly reminded of the standard English at school and quickly became ' bilingual ' using ' you ' at school and in formal settings, and ' tha ' at home and with friends.

In 2000, Arizona passed the English for Children initiative backed, again, by Ron Unz which mirrored California ’ s Proposition 227 in replacing bilingual education programs with English immersion ones.

According to the article, " Focus On Children, the Boston Publics Schools School Report Card ," of the students enrolled in 2003-2004, 70. 6 % were in regular education 7. 1 % in bilingual education, and 22. 2 % in the special education.

* AFRICAN STUDY: African Language Publishing For Children In South Africa ( This African study focuses on the dearth of teaching and learning materials in African languages required to deliver effective bilingual education, and on the potential role of translation in offering solutions for this problem.

Members of the Children of God founded communes, first called " colonies " but now referred to as " homes ," in various cities.

The Children and Young Persons Act of 1969 reformed the juvenile court system and extended local authority duties to provide community homes for juvenile offenders.

At least fourteen homes have been closed since the passage of the National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children.

Children were "' gathered-up ' from foundling homes, handed over by police sergeants, and left in Faithist depositories "; Newbrough and his wife traveled to Kansas City, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Chicago and gathered fifty children.

Children may also dress in colors signifying Europe, Asia, and Africa ( the supposed homes of the Wise Men ) and at the end of the parade route, church leaders often preach on the spiritual significance of the Epiphany.

Children in homes with an income under $ 41, 000 could receive vouchers equal to 90 % of the cost of their public school tuition and use that money to attend a private school.