Dear Children is the fourth studio album by Australian rock band The Black Sorrows.

According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, Dear Children "represented a turning point in the band's career".

The Black Sorrows had released three studio albums between 1984 and 1985 and had begun recording more original material.

By November 1986 the Black Sorrows line-up was Joe Camilleri, Jeff Burstin, Peter Luscombe, Nick Smith and Johnny Charles, down from eleven members.

Camilleri said that the line-up was "a lot more rockier but it has to be that way because all the gentle side of it has gone — the accordion player has gone.