childhood

"He had a very difficult childhood," trauma expert Gabor Mate told the BBC this week.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

Harley's story had touched him "immensely", he said, describing it as a "tragic situation" in which children have "their childhood taken away".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Executives had found an unexpected pairing that works: Inviting people to the theme park — a place many associate with childhood and simpler times — to experience the music they grew up listening to.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

That is, they regularly talk to a loose group of former colleagues, friends and, in some cases, role models from their childhood or college years, about the challenges they are facing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

There was no protection from common childhood illnesses like tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, diphtheria, or whooping cough.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Though the Womacks come from a line of West Virginian horse breeders, there was nothing Americana about the childhoods of BG, Zeimani and Kucha.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

As if their unconventional childhoods weren’t troubled enough, Asa and Yuru’s twinship comes with another heavy burden: saving the world.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Over one-third of American children and a staggering 53 percent of Black children will be subjected to a child protective services investigation at some point in their childhoods.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Six players – England's Owen Hargreaves, Graeme Le Saux and Tony Dorigo, plus Scotland's Lyndon Dykes, Richard Gough and John Hewie – spent their entire childhoods abroad and are excluded from the analysis.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

I doubt that anyone looking at our two childhoods, our circumstances, would ever have predicted we’d land in those halls.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama