I like this very much, but it has been lifted almost entirely from a series called The Tribe', another brilliant sci-fi about parents disappearing and everyone else left to fend for themselves. I'm a bit surprised that no-one has mentioned this, but then I suppose that the end of the last century is a bit far back now. Obviously there are some differences, 'the walking man' is a different slant on the cult in The Tribe; but there are a lot more similarities.
Not that it really matters, no-one will be reading this!
Not that it really matters, no-one will be reading this!