But there is a cost in trying to protect "fragile" children from harm and, perhaps, from themselves.

He is a fragile child that does not want to see disgusting things or else he feels faint.

James wondered how a child so fragile had survived among a crew of murderous brutes.

But the bureaucracy needs to remember that these cases involve children, immature by definition and often fragile.

And in yet another case, agency workers gave a fragile, days-old child to a foster parent whom it never informed of the baby's medical condition.

He reminded himself that she was no fragile child anymore, if she had ever been.

A fragile child, Mary suffered from a number of physical complaints.

Her supporters, including parents of other medically fragile children, contend the case is a witch hunt.

Because the Princess was a fragile and sick child, the King decided to marry again.

She was a pretty child, fair like her father, but fragile, and always crying.