English-Spanish translations for childhood

• infancia
  La infancia es frágil, la infancia es por esencia fugitiva. Childhood is fragile, childhood is essentially transient.
  Sartre lo sintió desde su infancia. Sartre felt it from childhood.
  ¡Todos los niños deberían tener derecho a la infancia! All children should have the right to a childhood!
• niñez
  – Señor Presidente, en el hogar de mi niñez no había libros académicos. Mr President, there were no scholarly books in my childhood home.
  El 26 % de los niños y jóvenes afirman haber sido víctimas de violencia física en su niñez. Twenty six percent of children report having suffered physical violence during their childhood.
  Hoy en día, más de 200 millones de niños de todo el mundo pueden estar trabajando de manera ilegal, sin educación ni niñez, y con riesgo para su salud física y mental. Today, over 200 million of the world's children may be working illegally, denying them an education and childhood and putting their physical and mental health at risk.

Definition of childhood

• The state of being a child
• The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty
• The early stages of development of something

Related words

• childhood disintegrative disorder
• childhood friend
• early childhood
• early childhood education
• lapse into second childhood