31.   And during those years, the child becomes a teen-ager or an adult and may engage in consensual sex or other activities that risk infection.

32.   And children can quickly become refined collectors, just like adults.

33.   And children have become one of the greatest silent cultural forces in the United States, never speaking but always spoken for.

34.   And children might become fearful of the invisible enemies so bothersome to parents.

35.   And if, by chance, something breaches the walls of their inner worlds, the Miller children become overwhelmed.

36.   And these children will become the adults of tomorrow.

37.   And those changes in brain chemistry may be the route by which a brutalized child becomes a violent adult.

38.   And with those tools, the thinking goes, childhood itself would change, as children became ever more able to take on new roles.

39.   Another tip is to start young so that children become accustomed to helping out.

40.   Another is the speed with which street children have become a problem.