It’s reminiscent of the left calling 18-19 year-old adult criminal gang members “children” when deceptively inflating the number of “children killed by guns” by including them.
Ha—yes!
NBA teams like the Boston Celtics are trying to increase the age for juvenile legal leniency through age 20:
https://www.nba.com/celtics/community/celtics-united/raise-the-age