Collocations for child - noun

little, small, young
My father died while I was still a small child.

newborn
teenage
We have three teenage children.

preschool, school-aged
adult, grown (esp. AmE), grown-up (esp. BrE)
good, obedient, well-behaved
aggressive, delinquent, difficult, disobedient, fractious, mischievous, naughty, problem, sulky, unruly, wayward, wilful/willful
He's always been a problem child.
The children were quite unruly and ran around the house as if they owned it.

bright, gifted, intelligent, precocious
a school for gifted children
What a precocious child—reading Jane Austen at the age of ten!

dull, slow
Teaching is particularly difficult when a class contains both slow and bright children.

abandoned, abused, at-risk, maltreated, neglected
therapy for sexually abused children

disadvantaged, needy, starving, underprivileged
spoiled
sickly
asthmatic, autistic, disabled, dyslexic, hyperactive, etc.
special-needs
innocent
loving
only
It was a little lonely being an only child.

eldest, first-born
fatherless, motherless, orphaned
adopted
bastard (usually figurative), illegitimate
the bastard child of romantic fiction and horror.

unborn
the rights of the unborn child

dependent
tax concessions for families with dependent children

street
There are a lot of street children in the poorer parts of the city.

biracial (AmE), mixed-race
minority

have
How many children do you have?

bear, give birth to, have
She didn't have her first child until she was nearly forty.

father
conceive
We had trouble conceiving our first child.

expect
They are expecting a child in June.

adopt, foster
lose
She couldn't imagine the pain of losing a child at birth.

bring up, raise, rear
He had old-fashioned ideas on how to bring up children.

indulge, pamper, spoil
You can't spoil a child by giving it all the affection it wants.

love, nurture
maltreat, neglect
educate, home-school (esp. AmE), teach
discipline, punish, scold
abandon
abduct, kidnap
abuse, molest
immunize, vaccinate

be born
Their first child was born with a rare heart condition.

develop, grow, grow up
Children grow up so quickly!
good food for growing children

cry, scream, whimper, whine
misbehave

actor, bride, soldier, star
prodigy
development
the emotional connections which ensure healthy child development

custody
a child custody dispute between divorced parents

support
After they divorced, he refused to pay child support.

labour/labor
prostitution
pornography
abuse, molestation
abuser, killer, molester
abduction
psychiatrist, psychologist
protection, safety, services (AmE), welfare

with child (literary)
big with child (= pregnant)