Children Children are the young male and female offspring of adult characters in . Found in the four human races — Nord , Imperial , Breton , and Redguard — Elven and bestial children do not appear in the province of Skyrim . There is also one child vampire , Babette . While many children can be found in buildings or wandering around towns , many reside at Honorhall Orphanage . With the installation of the expansion pack , children become available for adoption by the Dragonborn and their spouse . Without the use of console commands , exploits , or glitches , all children are invincible , unable to be harmed , killed , knocked unconscious , or pickpocket ed . Because of this , they are flagged as essential characters . Equipment . Apparel and appearance . Regardless of a child ' s race or economic status , all boys wear a collared sweater with brown trousers , and all girls wear a simple belted dress . However , the color of the sweater or dress varies from child to child . All children have the same physical features regardless of gender and race . Inventory . Children have similar inventories . Some items they tend to carry are : quill , charcoal , rolls of paper , broken steel sword handle , inkwells , shoes , child ' s clothes , coins , iron daggers , drums , lutes , flute s , wooden ladle s , various ingot s ( blacksmith Apprentices ) , leather strips , red or green apple s , buckets , leather , sweetrolls , Long Taffy Treat s , Honey Nut Treat s , Boiled Creme Treat s , and empty wine bottle s . Interactions . Some children can be given a coin . If given a coin , Sond and Bottar reveal a map location . Svari thanks the Dragonborn greatly if given a coin . Although invincible under normal circumstances , if attacked repeatedly , some children draw daggers and defend themselves . Some children may hire mercenaries or the Dark Brotherhood to kill the Dragonborn if they are caught committing a crime . Invisibility spells do not work on adopted children when they arrive home . Typically undetectable while invisible , children are always able to interact with the Dragonborn when they enter the door of their home , similarly to how City Guards in can interact with invisible players due to the scripting of their dialogue . Hearthfire . With the addition of downloadable content , the Dragonborn may adopt children . When adopted , they may be sent to any home owned by the Dragonborn that has the appropriate child ' s room upgrade . After becoming a parent , the Dragonborn can engage in various activities with their progeny . Adoptable children . Static residents . Orphans that statically appear at Honorhall Orphanage . Conditional residents . Orphans that are sent to Honorhall due to the death or murder of their parents or guardians . New additions . Adoptable children made available upon installing " Hearthfire " . Invincibility . Children cannot be killed , injured , or knocked unconscious , nor can they be pickpocket ed . However , when hit , a child ' s name and health will pop up , but the child will still be at full health . Additionally , children will run away when hit . Shouts do not affect children . If a child is a witness to a crime , they will warn the nearest adult . Exceptions . Changing a child ' s race using console commands revokes their imperviousness . For example , entering codice _ 1 allows the child to be killed . Doing so causes cosmetic glitches . In this example , the child appears as a Khajiit with a human head ; if the child is female , breasts and a bra appear on it . If the child ' s race is changed , they become naked . As they do not have clothing in their inventory , children are skinned with garments on their avatar . As a result , their clothing cannot be removed , even with console commands . Doing a charged attack as a lycanthrope can sling back children like any other character ; however , they remain unharmed as they get up . When using a Frenzy spell near a child , they receive the effect , and every guard in the city tries to kill the child , eventually chasing them out of town . It is possible that the child may actually attack the guards back and kill them all , due to their inability to be harmed .