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Damn FrustratedAssassin. Your a quick one
To be fair. If children were kill-able in a modern video game, it would of caused a uproar. I'm unsure if Fallout 1 and 2 caused any problems, But they were released in a less pissy, over sensitive world so I doubt it.
Quoting Emil Pagliarulo via the Fallout Wiki.
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"We don't want to cross lines like killing kids (we actually never got as far as even putting kill-able kids in any builds of the game)... For us, that was a line we certainly didn't want to cross, and we think that was the right decision. It wouldn't have been socially responsible, at least in the case of Fallout 3."
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It should be an option in my opinion. Give the player more freedom. Something which I definitely agree with that the new Fallout, Elder Scrolls games dropped the ball on.
That being said, The first mods to come out for a Bethesda game is usually for Kill-able Children. So go nuts.