Although people under 18 are not adults in the legal sense, it does not follow they are children. This is a technique used to create victims: example - 16 and 17 year olds are getting married and this is a child marriage. If they are old enough to have sex and get abortions they are not children and they are old enough to get married. Notice that in this case a 16 or 17 year old is a child. When teens want abortions or trans treatment (and in some cases these can be done with parental knowledge), the media never calls them children. Do we hear of child abortions? Child trans procedures? The whole thing is sickening.