Meanings of protecting the children in English

One of the articles about " protecting the children" caught her eye.

The intent of the painting was clear-thewhite wolf was protecting the children from the black wolf.

Unfortunately, in the name of protecting the church some bishops and cardinals completely forgot about protecting the children.

I know you were, and I love you for protecting the children, but I'm not a child, John.

He said about 20 families in the area were causing problems and parents and adults were protecting the children from police action.

Malorie, for all the work she has done protecting the children from madness, wonders if she's prepared them enough for the old realities.

In 2011, Max Payne is living and working in São Paulo, Brazil, where he's found a job protecting the children of a wealthy family.

She frowned, regretting a false step, and went on conciliatorily: Of course we're only doing what any decent family is bound to do- protectingthe children.