# children (human)

a person that is part of a family and is in growth

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: human  ·  Arena: children

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [family](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-family.social), [growth](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-growth.development), [part](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-part.relation)

**Through:** When a person is in a family through a part-whole relation and undergoes physical development, the emergent phenomenon is a child.

**Novel properties:**
- dependent agency
- developmental status
- familial role

## Examples
- In 2020, the Smith family in Columbus, Ohio, included three children under age 10 growing visibly each year. *(everyday life)*
- The Brazilian favela school program enrolled 427 children in 2018, tracking their development over three academic cycles. *(institutions)*
- Genetic analysis of the 2015–2020 Framingham Heart Study cohort included 1,248 children monitored from birth to adolescence. *(biology)*

## Used by
- [teen](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-teen.age) (L9)

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