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 |