There's no real reason humans should be drinking cow's milk, kids or adults. We do so because it was once thought to be beneficial and thanks to the continued barrage of Milk at School programs, milk does your body good advertisements, etc., people still think it's super awesome for them. Any person with any decent "Google foo" can find out pretty quickly that it's not all it's hyped up to be.
As far as children go, a well balanced diet full of veggies, nuts, and the like will produce far higher amounts of calcium and the vitamins found in milk. There might be an argument made for poorer families that milk is better than nothing, but given the high number of humans who have lactose intolerance (many who probably don't even realize it, they just live with the farting and bloating), it's still probably not worth it.
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