Gruesome, vaguely plausible stories that don't mention a specific place and date and have some sort of moral (in this case, that parents should teach their kids basic domestic skills) are usually urban myths.
If you think about it, this story doesn't make a lot of sense. Six and eight year-old kids don't have many life-skills, but there aren't many who are so dumb that they'd stay in a house starving rather than figuring out a way to get outside and seek help. And they'd have to have been born with super-power levels of stupid not to be able to figure out how to use a can opener by trial and error.
My dad always told me a story. Where is it from?
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Gruesome, vaguely plausible stories that don't mention a specific place and date and have some sort of moral (in this case, that parents should teach their kids basic domestic skills) are usually urban myths.
If you think about it, this story doesn't make a lot of sense. Six and eight year-old kids don't have many life-skills, but there aren't many who are so dumb that they'd stay in a house starving rather than figuring out a way to get outside and seek help. And they'd have to have been born with super-power levels of stupid not to be able to figure out how to use a can opener by trial and error.