While there is general agreement that childhood ends at 18, the working group was unable to reach a consensus on when it begins.

In a sense, the decision was already made; her childhood ended the moment it became hers to choose or to leave behind.

Some consider that childhood, as a concept of play and innocence, ends at adolescence.

In a way, his childhood ended when Scortius went up the track and not down.

"That was the moment my childhood ended," Patrick says.

I was awake the day my childhood ended, watched it slip from me right there on the evening news.

"A guillotine came down and childhood ended, I mean, just like that."

It was true; childhood would end; she would be a woman.

For those in the war's path, childhood ends abruptly.

Steven's childhood ended the day the split was announced.