This, they point out, stereotyped their generation outrageously and demeaned all middle-aged children.

I am a middle-aged only child.

So too is Donna Rutherford's Kin, about middle-aged children and their parents, which will also be out on the road next year.

The middle-aged learning-disabled child still living with parents is a very familiar scenario.

Toddlers ran beside their mothers and grandfathers were borne up by their middle-aged children.

He was like a middle-aged child, puzzled and sweet, his blue eyes full of tears.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

(With their children already middle-aged, the holdouts aren't there for the Jericho schools, which are consistently rated among the best in the state.)

At first, he is truly "like a child with a new bicycle" - well, a middle-aged child, but nonstop in his zeal.

Sometimes the opposite occurs, and the middle-aged child encourages the overinvolvement.