The CDC actually reports 10 deaths per day for children in their stats for the year 2000.......HOWEVER....

They band the age groups, deaths ages 15-19 and 20-24.......

which means 24 year olds could be (and were) counted as children using their banded stats.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_11.pdf