I got the "Taken the children" event yesterday, and was confused when I saw that my tribe was still at 113, and all of the children were STILL THERE .... who did they take? I still had two ladies with babies, and 17 children, from ages 3-12, so who did they take? LOL. I can't attribute it to time away passage, since I visit the tribe every night, at least to keep the "home fires burning", and I have it set to 1/2 time.
That happened to me as well. I even have a screenshot of it...Here's the event saying that the children had been taken and there's clearly a child hanging around the fire just above the event pop up!
