Tender age meaning - Tender Years Doctrine: Legal Definition

In other areas of the law, the term tender years may refer to a law that creates special rules for small children.

Families no longer grew their own food or worked at their homestead.

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How the tender years doctrine began Going back to the pre-industrial age, a child generally worked a variety of important chores for the family.