Without the atonement of Jesus Christ, little children, through the fall of Adam, would have been doomed to suffer eternally. They would have become devils, angels to a devil, to be shut out from the presence of our God (2 Nephi 9:9). That the curse of Adam can only be overcome through the atonement, is verified in the words of Christ, little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin; wherefore the curse of Adam is taken from them in me, that it hath no power over them (Moroni 8:8).