The phrase "defenceless children" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the vulnerability or lack of protection of children in various contexts, such as social issues, literature, or advocacy.
Example: "The charity focuses on providing support and resources for defenceless children in war-torn regions."
Alternatives: "vulnerable children" or "unprotected children."
I sometimes have an impulse to hurt defenceless children or animals".
"Bishops and priests, religious women and men, the elderly and even defenceless children and the infirm were murdered," the pope said.
A place which happily accepts defenceless children whose lives have been torn apart by war, or one who rejects them out of fear and ignorance?
For this is a tragic, appalling tale of brutality against small and defenceless children whose families had already been murdered by Turkish forces at the height of the First World War, some of whom were to recall how they were forced to grind up and eat the skeletons of their dead fellow child orphans in order to survive starvation.
Also, in the past, Mr Lieberman has proposed more Draconian tort-law restrictions than were contained in the bill which the Senate defeated in July.Will commentators ever get round to evaluating this kind of legislative immorality against defenceless children and adults who become victims of reckless or criminal behaviour by car, drug, chemical, securities and insurance companies?
"We have run out of excuses for our failure to live up to our responsibility to protect our innocent defenceless children from gratuitous violence," the speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, told legislators at a special session last week to mourn the latest victims – 59 students killed at a boarding school in neighbouring Yobe state on 25 February.
He accused Catt of robbing "an apparently defenceless child … of the life which he was about to commence".
He added: "The murder of any human being is always a tragedy, the murder of a defenceless child of any age, the more so.
Daniel Rigby, 23, inflicted 91 separate injuries on his girlfriend's son in what the prosecution described as a "wicked attack on a defenceless child", Manchester Crown Court heard yesterday.
The idea of my vulnerable, defenceless child seeing his mother destabilised by any kind of relationship forced me to stick up for myself in a way I hadn't been able to".
"He was a defenceless child and it was your duty to protect him.
