User blog comment:TESClaymore/Skyrim Twitter Q&A with Pete Hines/@comment-4300626-20110816211758/@comment-4033448-20110817070348

I HIGHLY doubt they would be allowed to implement child murder. If they did implement it, it would cause a crap ton of unwanted controversy, would definitely get banned in some countries (looking at Australia here, which I live in), and Fox news (and others) would jump over it, winging about how it encourages people to kill children, and whatever-the-hell-not, and sales would suffer. They already made a crap ton of controversy about the sex scenes in Mass Effect, which showed almost nothing, imagine what they would make over being able to kill children. Personally I wouldn't mind being able to kill children, it would add to realism and roleplaying elements, but its best if its left out for said reasons.