tender years
Time of innocence
Tender years refers to early childhood, the period when a person is young, vulnerable, and not yet mature.
The phrase appears most often in legal and formal contexts: children of tender years, removed from her parents in her tender years.
It emphasizes youth as a time requiring special protection and care.
- child custodyLegal parental responsibility allocation
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
- infancyEarliest period of life
- toddlerhoodStage of learning walking
- first stepsInitial actions taken
young age · early childhood · naivety · wide-eyed wonder · trustfulness · curiosity · vulnerability · playfulness · child welfare · babyhood · wonderment · imagination · child protection · childhood innocence · dependency · family law · best interests · parental responsibility
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
- nostalgianostalgia, nostalgic, memories, memory, remember
- parental rightsparental rights, parental authority, parental responsibility, parental responsibilities, parental consent
tender yearsold age
Advanced years of life
adulthood · golden years · twilight years · declining years · middle age
tender yearsyears of experience
tender, year, years, tenderly, tenderness, tenderize, tenderizer, tenderhearted, yearly