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June 24, 2008

who are you calling 'children'?

We have a reader who is not at all sure about the way Friends parcel up 'children' with 'young people'. 'We know all about them', he says, 'there is someone at Friends House who has special responsibility for them. I assume that numerous Area and Local Meetings have committees devoted to children and young people'. But who are the children, he wants to know. 'I'm happy just with young people. I see them as being aged from nought up to whenever they stop being treated as young.'
The way that children grow up so quickly these days, Eye imagines they would also agree with this.

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