"The American television industry tends to view children and youth as consumers rather than as learners."

They might view children as a sign of fertility of the parent or of the masculinity of the father.

They view marriage as ownership, and children as either competition or a substitute for their lover.

Those measures were an affront to Chinese culture, which had always viewed children as a blessing, and now the social engineering was having an unexpected result.

A poster taped to the shaky walls expresses the way she views children.

More notably she transformed how people viewed gifted children.

The family used a computer at a local library to view children for adoption, she said.

In its report, the committee cautioned that it was a mistake to view children as "little adults" who could be treated like their larger counterparts.

Tendency to view children as objects.