I just did a check over the site's rules.<br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">All sexual role playing and sexual storytelling must involve physically and mentally mature characters. They must be sixteen years of age or over, and/or the physical and mental equivalent. Banned role playing and story subjects include lolicon, shotacon, or any other form of sexualizing prepubescent minors. Note, whatever the age of the characters, please take account of the rules governing images.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The rules specifically call out 'sexual roleplaying' in the prohibitions.  Having children as NPCs or in the story has never been forbidden anywhere I can see, so long as they are not involved in anything sexual.<br/><br/>This is one of the topics that addresses the question, and I believe Saffron was staff when she answered it:<br/><br/>https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=118185.msg5153989#msg5153989