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Chigozie Onyema
Chigozie Onyema is an American politician, attorney, and community organizer who is the Democratic nominee for the New Jersey General Assembly from the 28th district, after serving as a state Assistant Commissioner of Community Affairs.
Chigyu (チー牛)
Chigyu (チー牛), Japanese net slang abbreviating chīzu gyūdon (cheese gyūdon), labels a stereotypically plain, withdrawn man via a 2008 ibiryo self-portrait; viral from 2020, studied as hate content in 2025.
Chika Ezeanya Esiobu
Chika Ezeanya Esiobu, also published as Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu, is a researcher and writer who argues that indigenous knowledge should be given greater weight in African development.
Chikahiro Terada
Chikahiro Terada (寺田親弘), born 1976, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the Tokyo company Sansan in 2007 and has led it as president and CEO since.
Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar
Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar (ಚಿಕ್ಕ ದೇವರಾಜ ಒಡೆಯರ್), also styled Chikkadevaraja Wodeyar, was the Maharaja of Mysore from 1673 to 1704, the fourteenth ruler of the Wodeyar dynasty.
Chikyoren
Chikyoren, also known as the Regional Economy Vitalization Corporation of Japan (REVIC), is a Japanese stock company founded October 14, 2009, to revitalize regional economies and support SMEs.
Chilcotin War
The Chilcotin War, also called the Tŝilhqot'in War, was an 1864–1865 conflict in which the Tsilhqot'in Nation fought colonial forces in what is now British Columbia, Canada.
Child abandonment
Child abandonment is the relinquishment of parental responsibility for a child, historically called expositio in Roman law. Known through foundling hospitals since 787 CE, the London Foundling Hospital, and modern US safe-haven laws, baby boxes, and confidential-birth alternatives.
Child abduction
Child abduction is the unauthorized removal or retention of a child in breach of parental or custodial rights. Covers parental and stranger abduction, the 1980 Hague Convention return mechanism, and criminal laws such as the U.S. IPKCA.
Child abduction and divorce overlap
Child abduction and divorce overlap where the end of a cross-border marriage produces a child's removal abroad, triggering the 1980 Hague Convention's summary-return machinery alongside divorce and custody proceedings.
Child abuse
Child abuse, or child maltreatment, is abuse and neglect of children under 18, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, neglect, and exploitation; WHO estimates 400 million young children experience violent discipline and 1 in 5 women report childhood sexual abuse.
Child Behavior Checklist
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) is a standardized parent questionnaire rating children's behavioral and emotional problems, introduced by Thomas Achenbach and Craig Edelbrock in 1983.
Child cannibalism
Child cannibalism: the eating of children by humans, spanning prehistoric evidence such as the Gran Dolina toddler, the Cronus myth, child-eating folklore motifs, blood libel and witchcraft accusations, and documented Fore endocannibalism.
Child custody
Child custody law determines legal authority over a child and where the child lives after separation. Also called parental responsibility or child arrangements orders; covers best-interests standard, joint versus sole custody, jurisdiction, and 2025 reforms.
Child development
Child development: the progression of children's physical, cognitive, emotional, and social capabilities from before birth onward. Also called developmental science; distinguished by gene-environment-time interaction, sensitive periods, and ECDI global measurement.
Child development stages
Child development stages are age bands (early childhood 0–5, middle childhood 6–10, adolescence 11–18) used to describe and monitor childhood development, with CDC milestones, AAP screening schedules, and stage theories like Piaget's.
Child discipline
Child discipline covers non-violent methods such as limits, praise, and consequences, and corporal punishment, which WHO and the AAP advise against: 1.2 billion children are physically punished at home yearly, with no positive outcomes shown.
Child erotica
Child erotica is non-pornographic material relating to children used for sexual purposes; it is broader than child pornography and is defined by use rather than content.
Child Labor Amendment
The Child Labor Amendment, proposed by Congress in 1924 (H.J. Res. 184), would have granted Congress power to limit, regulate, and prohibit labor of persons under 18. Ratified by only 28 of 36 needed states; never adopted, it remains technically pending.
Child labour
Child labor is work that harms children's development or deprives them of childhood; the ILO and UNICEF estimated 138 million affected children worldwide in 2024, including 54 million in hazardous work.
Child labour in India
Child labor in India is the employment of children in work Indian law prohibits or regulates, governed by the 1986 Child Labour Act as amended in 2016.
Child labour in the British Industrial Revolution
Child labour in the British Industrial Revolution: children in factories, mines, and agriculture, 1760-1840, often on 12-hour shifts; regulated by the Factory Acts from 1802 and 1833 onward.
Child marriage
Child marriage: formal or informal marriage or union involving someone under 18, also called early or forced marriage. About 650 million women and girls alive today were married as children; prevalence is 19 percent among women aged 20-24, highest in sub-Saharan Africa, and only 38 countries ban it without exceptions.
Child marriage in India
Child marriage in India: marriage below legal ages of 18 for women and 21 for men under the PCMA 2006. 23% of women 20–24 married before 18 (NFHS-5); India holds a third of world child brides; drivers are poverty and low education.
Child marriage in the United States
Child marriage in the United States is the legal practice of marrying before 18, producing an estimated 314,154 married minors from 2000 to 2021, mostly girls wed to adult men.
Child Marriage Restraint Act
Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929, also called the Sarda Act, was British India's first minimum-age-of-marriage law: 14 for girls, 18 for boys, fines and short imprisonment, amended 1938, 1948, 1978, repealed by the 2006 Prohibition Act.
Child murder
Child murder, or child homicide, is the intentional killing of a child (infanticide in the first year of life). Parents are the most common perpetrators; rates are highest in infancy, and legal treatment ranges from distinct infanticide statutes to ordinary murder law.
Child neglect
Child neglect is the failure of a caregiver to meet a child's basic physical and emotional needs. Also called negligent treatment, it is the maltreatment category most often recorded by child protection agencies, with estimated global prevalence of 163 per 1,000 children for physical and 184 for emotional neglect.
Child pornography
Child pornography, now termed child sexual abuse material (CSAM), is visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving minors. Covers terminology, global legislation, AI-generated imagery, detection, and prevention.
Child pornography laws in Japan
Child pornography laws in Japan rest on the 1999 Child Prostitution and Pornography Prohibition Act (児童買春・児童ポルノ禁止法), amended 2014 to criminalize simple possession, up to 1 year or 1 million yen, and voyeuristic production; fictional manga and anime depictions remain unregulated.