Adjective modifier

• traumatic: People wonder if he had a traumatic childhood, or harbors a deep inner pain, but he says he doesn't.

• unhappy: With Barnardo's help, an unhappy childhood need not lead to a bleak future.

• troubled: In spite of a troubled childhood, actress and singer Lorraine McIntosh has found true happiness through her own family.

• unsettled: The facts 7. The Applicant is, plainly, a troubled young woman, who had a very unsettled childhood.

• early: Her interest in arts awoke in her early childhood.

• carefree: In some ways I felt I lost out on a carefree childhood.

Converse of object

• survive: He was the only one of their eleven children not to survive childhood.

• spend: Journalist Nigel Dando paid this tribute to his sister: " Jill and I spent a happy childhood in Weston.

• remember: During my trance I started to remember some childhood sexual abuse.

• lose: Debbie is busy typing on the keyboard of a laptop; she sold a piece entitled ' childhood lost and found ' .

• have: More boys than girls have childhood Hodgkin's disease.

• experience: Women Only Day November 2004 has brought the opening of our Women Only Day for women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse.

Preposition: into

• adulthood: They assessed ecstasy use in 1580 individuals from childhood into adulthood.

Modifies a noun

• obesity: More Childhood obesity measurements in schools could do more harm than good, warn researchers.

• leukemia: A study of the occurrence of a rare disease, childhood leukemia, provides an example of a Bayesian approach.

• sweetheart: Then he meets his childhood sweetheart, Harmony, a failing actress working the party scene.

• immunization: Most recently he has done research on reasons for the low uptake of childhood immunisations among rural communities in Transkei, South Africa.

• blindness: Presented at the workshop on childhood blindness held in Concepcion, Chile, November 1992.

• deafness: Childhood deafness can lead to great strain on wider family relationships.

Possessives

• daughter: GUY SHERWIN MESSAGES UK, 1981-3, silent, B&W, 35 mins, 16mm Made during my daughter's early childhood.