lost children
Wandered-off little ones
Lost children are kids who have become separated from their parents or guardians, whether momentarily in a crowded place or through more serious circumstances like abduction or abandonment.
The phrase extends to adults who seem directionless or emotionally adrift: The shelter serves society's lost children—runaways, addicts, the forgotten.
A lost child can also be one who died young, carried in memory by grieving parents.
- missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
- missing personsUnlocated individuals sought by authorities
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- foundDiscovered or established
- searchingLooking to find
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