Parents described children returning from school last week in tears because popular teachers were being let go.

He described their wives and children being seriously wounded.

Virtus was not a term commonly used to describe children.

They talk about the nation's highest officials in terms often used to describe children fighting in the back of the car.

The term also describes children who refuse the nourishment offered them.

Separate but equal might be closer to describing these parents and children stretched out upon each others' racks.

Foster agencies sometimes place advertisements in the local newspaper describing children who need homes.

Several times in that book he describes children in his neighborhood being set upon simply because they were Jewish.

At one point she described children as "the toughest little critters in the world."

The word "orphan" to describe children who have lost one or both parents early has an old-fashioned ring.