Anyone else feel it's unfair framing to describe a 17-year-old as a "kid". How many more months before he can buy a gun, get married, fight a war, gamble away h

Anyone else feel it's unfair framing to describe a 17-year-old as a "kid". How many more months before he can buy a gun, get married, fight a war, gamble away his savings or ruin his credit? It's not that he's not a kid, but it feels disingenuous to use that as the primary descriptor of someone in their late teens.