"Ett litet barn kan bli nervöst om det inte får skratta."
Translation:A small child can become nervous if it is not allowed to laugh.
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Along with using gender-inclusive (aka neutral) pronouns, when necessary or comfortable, dropping pronouns altogether to avoid a taboo is common in my culture. So, "a little child can become nervous if not allowed to laugh" sounds fine to me. Though, I don't know how it is perceived elsewhere.
As for he/she, it still expects a child to be gendered. The world is a big place and those pronouns don't cover all of the bases. For example, I'm agender. Use of those pronouns excludes the possibility that I am the topic of the sentence, unless it is shown by context that the speaker is mistaken but intended for me to be the topic. I know for a fact that in Sweden, he/she misses a portion of the population as well. But, we might not have learned that if we hadn't run into a sentence that asks us to do something unexpected in order to prepare for a language and culture that are not our own. :)
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Personally, I'd never use the pronoun 'it' to describe a child (or any human being for that matter). It just sounds dehumanising.
'It' is fine to use when describing an animal whose gender I don't know (or for livestock).
When describing a human whose gender I don't know, I would always use 'they'
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No, not where I come from. The pronoun 'it' is far too dehumanising to describe ANY human being.