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What is the new proper way to use a child selector with a context node in jQuery?

From the jQuery docs:

Note: The $(“> elem”, context) selector will be deprecated in a future release. Its usage is thus discouraged in lieu of using alternative selectors.

http://api.jquery.com/child-selector/

What would be an alternative selector for this?

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$(context).children('elem')

also $("> elem", context) is deprecated, but $(context+" >elem") and $("parent>child") are not