system
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human
where is the line drawn between childhood and adult abuse?

i’m sure it’s not a hard line, but more a difference between life stages, but when is it considered adult abuse instead of child abuse? is an older teenager still considered a child?
gpt
It's a legal distinction rather than a clinical one, and as such it breaks along the legal age of majority.  Abuse against a person who is legally a child is child abuse, and abuse against a person who is not is not.