While the adults are trying to find a solution, the children roam the house helping out in their own peculiar way.
There are workhouses for the poor instead of welfare and impoverished children roam the streets.
The days when the children of Sevenwaters could roam the forest freely, without fear, are gone.
"You can let your children roam anywhere knowing they will be safe."
Our children are roaming the streets because no one cares enough to go and get them.
By some estimates, 50,000 children roam this city's streets, often because their parents cannot afford the fees at Government schools.
Dogs and children roamed the streets, too, sometimes chasing chickens, sometimes one another.
One of these games is a race, in which the children roam an island competing with one another to plant the most corms.
But it's hard to let children roam too freely, he said, because the news media have spooked parents with reports of child abductions and murders.
Unclothed children barely out of infancy roamed the road's shoulders.