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  1. Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children

    Dec 21, 2012 · "adult children" is sometimes used in contexts where age is important, such as a form requiring someone to list all children under 18 and all adult children living with them. And …

  2. What is the word for an adult who is not mature?

    May 11, 2014 · What term can be used for an adult, especially a man, who is in his forties and still behaves like a teenager, shunning responsibilities typical of mature people, preferring to enjoy …

  3. Adult children? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Apr 18, 2017 · "Adult children" comes from "adult children of alcoholics", but now has broader reference to adults who were abused emotionally, physically or sexually in childhood.

  4. ChatGPT 不再限制用户制作成人内容,此举何意? - 知乎

    2月13日消息,OpenAI发布了其《模型规范》的扩展版本,内容涵盖了AI模型如何处理争议性话题、用户定制化…

  5. Terms to describe age groups - English Language & Usage Stack …

    A young/prime adult, according to Erik Erikson's stages of human development, is generally a person between the age of 20 - 40, whereas an adolescent is a person between the age of 13 …

  6. Specific word for "grown-up children"? [duplicate]

    Mar 5, 2014 · Is there a specific word for adult offspring? If all of your "children" are now in their adulthood, is there a specific word to refer to them?

  7. Trying to understand the nuances between ox, steer and bullock

    Dec 6, 2018 · American English: an adult animal of the cattle family, esp. a male that has had its sexual organs removed. (here "castrated" is qualified with "especially") Further, Wikipedia …

  8. Word meaning project adult characteristics onto children?

    Dec 14, 2018 · I'm looking for a word that is similar to anthropomorphize but that means projecting adult characteristics onto children. I have a pre-verbal child and it is very easy to make up …

  9. Where in the U.S. do people change the stress of umbrella, adult …

    I think that I change the stress in "adult" depending on part of speech—it's always the second syllable for the noun (and verb), but often first syllable for the adjective.

  10. Is post-hyphenation necessary in "I am a child and adult …

    Mar 12, 2023 · 4 Based on usage, hyphenation doesn't seem necessary. According to Google, "a child and adult psychologist" seems to be the most idiomatic expression referring to a …