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Let us see childhood means the state of being a child. So who is a child well the dictionary defines a child(ren) as a young person or people below puberty or a person below the age of adulthood. For example according to UNICEF a child is a young person below 18 years however biologicaly a child is a person who is in between puberty and infancy. This means that childhood could be defined biologicaly starting at the end of infancy and ending at puberty, or defined socially and legally starting at birth and ending at 18 years. But mostly I have to agree childhood is mostly socially consturcted because it is society and the law that deems when one is a child and when he ceases to be a child and because an adult.
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Let us see childhood means the state of being a child. So who is a child well the dictionary defines a child(ren) as a young person or people below puberty or a person below the age of adulthood. For example according to UNICEF a child is a young person below 18 years however biologicaly a child is a person who is in between puberty and infancy. This means that childhood could be defined biologicaly starting at the end of infancy and ending at puberty, or defined socially and legally starting at birth and ending at 18 years. But mostly I have to agree childhood is mostly socially consturcted because it is society and the law that deems when one is a child and when he ceases to be a child and because an adult.