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[Ziusudra]

You could instead have them pulling levers.

Wait, children cannot be assigned to levers... right?

They can be, no idea if they actually respect it.

[Albedo]

Wait, children cannot be assigned to levers... right?

Not sure what you mean by "assign" - unless you mean lock a child in a room with the levers. Children will do anything that a noble will, and that includes pulling levers, but unless you do control the path (by locked doors, etc) it's random who will respond to pull a given lever.

It'd be a trick to get the kid into the control room in the first place (without cheating, natch).

[Ziusudra]

Assign means choosing the child from the Permitted Workers list in the Workshop Profile for the lever.

EDIT: They do not respect the lever assignment. However, you can also assign bedrooms to children. If they actually sleep in them you could sequester them that way.

[Albedo]

That's certainly one possible use of the word, yes.  On these boards, ya never know, so I asked.

In that sense, children can certainly be included/excluded to a specific lever, even to be the sole dwarf allowed to respond to an order to pull it.

I'd be hesitant to do that, unless I had a LOT of children to assign to it together. They can tend to be off deconstructing stuff or throwing parties or herding animals at the most inconvenient times.

[Atarlost]

Snatcher problems should be mostly avoidable. 

• Don't have any female woodcutters
• Turn off wood hauling on all female dwarfs
• Have soldiers on duty when deconstructing something outside

If the kids never have any reason to leave your defenses they'll stay safe. 

[Os Q]

If I have some room, I assign statues to children, so they hang around their "owned furniture" rather than wander around the woods. This only works sporadically though.

[Satarus]

Bah, the moms are too busy poping out kids to really care if one disappears.  If it is a military mom, one satisfying sparring session will get rid of that negative thought.  Just look at it as one less mouth to feed and a bed that can be given to some dwarf who works for a living.

[2xMachina]

I prefer to just wall the entire map. Only way anything gets anywhere near my dwarves is through my trapped front gate with markdwarves 3 lvls above.

That also cause me to catch 90% of the wildlife though... They'd walk through my traps trying to get anywhere.