With many parents away or at work, children were often left to look after themselves.

Why should a child be left to the mother only?

When my husband and I are dead, what will our children be left with?

The police said the children had been left alone for two days.

The children were left alone until their father got home from work and took care of them.

We used to leave the children at home on their own.

I left the children with him and came by myself.

Let us go inside and leave the children to their play.

She had left two children, a girl and a boy.

He left three children at the time of his death.