I just now caught this. A previous issue of GameInformer, presenting an article on the upcoming title The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, told readers of a feature in which, upon dropping an item into the world, NPCs may either get into a fight over who gets to take it home, or, according to the interviewee from Bethesda who gave the information, "A child may come up and attempt to give it back to you." Was this a slip, or are there going to be children in Skyrim?
There were children in the past two Fallout games, so it seems highly likely that children will be in Skyrim as well.
I don't know, discuss amongst yourselves.