I love the Walking Dead universe. The original show and spinoffs are fun so this isn't hating on TWD, but I started watching the World Beyond and I keep wondering what with parents during the zombie apocalypse?
The whole concept of The World Beyond is Hope and Iris are on a cross country journey to find their dad who left to go do scientific research for the CRM. And it made me think of Michonne and how she just left her kids too to go on her own quest (I get it, Danai wanted off the show). But it seems like in the Walking Dead universe people are pretty ok with just leaving their kids with non-parents and going off on their own journey.
I mean, even at the end of the Walking Dead original series Daryl leaves Judith and JR to go find Michonne and Rick, proving Judith was right to never tell Daryl that her dad might still be out there because she knew Daryl would also leave like Michonne did. And then, even though Michonne left the kids with Daryl, he bails too lol.