Child

Children are the young inhabitants of the wastes. They are killable in the first two games, if they are killed you can get the ChildKiller Reputation. In Fallout 3, however there are children, e.g. The residents of Little Lamplight, but are invincible. Bethesda faced a similar problem when making The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, as they considered adding children to make it seem realistic, but this raised issues that if they could be killed they could make a child murder simulation, the counter was that they simply make the characters invincible. This once again raised issues because this would undermine the childrens whole point of being there, making the game more realistic. Eventually Bethesda scrapped the idea, however it would seem in Fallout 3 they have gone the other way, allowing children for realism, but making them invincible (with the exceptions of Hayden Simms and Maggie in the explosion of Megaton, and Sticky).