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Children who qualify as dependents. If your son or daughter is your biological child, stepchild, foster child, sibling, step-sibling, or a descendant of any of these individuals, you can claim him/her as your dependent, but the child canât turn 19 at any time during the tax year (age 24 if a full-time student).
Most of the time when people take dependents on their tax return, itâs their children they claim. There are five specific criteria that must be met to take a child as a dependent: 1  Residency. 2  The dependent must live with you for at least six months out of the year.