"Shouldn't they be picking up their kid?" -- this statement, while probably spot on -- is anathema to raising children in NYC. The kids that go to these events?

"Shouldn't they be picking up their kid?" -- this statement, while probably spot on -- is anathema to raising children in NYC. The kids that go to these events? Are a-okay to walk home close to midnight. I would bet no parents show up at the end of the party to be picked up like at a school dance in the suburbs. (Ha. Oh childhood.) The kids who have parents that would pick up their kids? From my experience with my brothers and experience working with NYC kids -- they wouldn't be going to the party anyhow.