Why do people think 16 year olds are children?
When I was 16, almost everyone had lost their virginity or were a year or two away from losing it. Others were learning to drive or working their first jobs.
shareI'll go one better. Legally a person under 18 is an infant and that term is used on legal documents.
shareI think the term is "minor"
shareThat's another term. But, on some legal documents the legal term infant is used.
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Infants
A concerned parent and her 17 year old son protested that he wasn't an infant which was on the legal form he needed to sign. The look on their faces were priceless.