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I read somewhere it had to do with the fact that the actress was under 18 in real life while Ralph Macchio was 27 at the time. It was an issue the filmmakers decided to avoid.
At the time of filming she would have been around 16.
Given everything that is going on today, they would never cast a girl that young having a "relationship" with a guy that older, though in the movie Daniel was meant to be around 18 or 19 I think.