no, children do not NEED milk, they can get calcium through many other foods. Bread, OJ, muffins, drink mixers all are fortified with calcium in todays marketplace. as children grow older, they need MORE calcium too, not less, and its women too who need calcium isn't it ?
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html
good information there
DanndD tea is cheap, we brew it every morning and drink it hot and iced. If you buy it premade and calculate it maybe its more expensive than gas, but again tea drinking is not a nessecity of life is it ?
you cannot live and raise your family without gasoline, and that is true for virtually every man and women in the US with extremely rare exceptions