Was I right to be concerned/glad it wasn't my child? Last night, coming out of checking my rental flats in the city centre, next to a busy road and major junction at 9.30pm. Nearly tripped over 5young children sitting eating chips in the doorway. Navigating past them, I noticed many more children sitting eating their chips along the pavement, some in a pub doorway. I was a bit surprised and when I came back 10 minutes later, said to the adult who seemed to be hovering about with them "Are these children all right? Are you in charge of them?"
She immediately said "Oh no, they're not my children" so I commented that it was a pity they'd been left there to eat their chips in the filth (it is a slightly dirty street as there are a lot of pubs and men urinating occasionally against walls) and she said "Well, its a nightmare trying to look after 35 13 year olds between 3 of us". I said there was a grassy area directly across the road with some seats but she didn't take it in, I don't think.