Collocations for the word child when used in the Senate during the 1970s
| Collocation | Frequency |
|---|---|
| child care | 863 |
| child endowment | 650 |
| handicapped child | 151 |
| one child | 99 |
| every child | 80 |
| first child | 69 |
| dependent child | 62 |
| child migrant | 61 |
| child minding | 51 |
| australian child | 50 |
| child welfare | 48 |
| child abuse | 36 |
| school child | 31 |
| per child | 28 |
| student child | 27 |
| child would | 23 |
| child health | 22 |
| aboriginal child | 21 |
| eligible child | 21 |
| unborn child | 21 |
| child shall | 20 |
| increased child | 20 |
| invalid child | 20 |
| second child | 20 |
| increase child | 19 |
| child may | 18 |
| third child | 17 |
| child labour | 16 |
| adopted child | 15 |
| eldest child | 14 |
| young child | 14 |
| child could | 13 |
| child day | 13 |
| child migrants | 12 |
| child population | 12 |
| child requiring | 12 |
| child bearing | 11 |
| child born | 11 |
| child whose | 11 |
| child attending | 10 |
| child irrespective | 10 |
| new child | 10 |
| pensions child | 10 |
| pre-school child | 10 |
| additional child | 9 |
| average child | 9 |
| child mortality | 9 |
| child per | 9 |
| introduced child | 9 |
| isolated child | 9 |
| child becomes | 8 |
| child concerned | 8 |
| child iyc | 8 |
| child rearing | 8 |
| child turns | 8 |
| fourth child | 8 |
| ofthe child | 8 |
| receive child | 8 |
| brain child | 7 |
| child attends | 7 |
| child gets | 7 |
| child pornography | 7 |
| child receives | 7 |
| ex-nuptial child | 7 |
| old child | 7 |
| small child | 7 |
| born child | 6 |
| child bashing | 6 |
| child dies | 6 |
| child however | 6 |
| child needs | 6 |
| child programme | 6 |
| child reaches | 6 |
| child within | 6 |
| commercial child | 6 |
| foster child | 6 |
| include child | 6 |
| increasing child | 6 |
| needed child | 6 |
| operated child | 6 |
| proper child | 6 |
| provide child | 6 |
| receiving child | 6 |
| sick child | 6 |
| subsequent child | 6 |
| surviving child | 6 |
| adequate child | 5 |
| allowing child | 5 |
| another child | 5 |
| based child | 5 |
| battered child | 5 |
| child accident | 5 |
| child allowances | 5 |
| child comes | 5 |
| child development | 5 |
| child means | 5 |
| child might | 5 |
| child must | 5 |
| child ofthe | 5 |
| child program | 5 |