THE LEGAL DEFINITIONS SERIES BY M. IMRAN BAKHT ADVOCATE.
================================================== ====


Tender Year Doctrine
=================

Children are not treated in the same manner as the adults. "Tender Year Doctrine" has been incorporated in common law to recognize the fact that children due to their young age are incapable of identifying negligence and hence cannot be made liable for the same.

The youth in tender years doctrine has been not defined leading to certain states defining fixed age bracket for it and others comparing child in question to what a child of same age would have done in similar circumstances.