I was actually a professional consultant for this article

http://www.cracked.com/blog/2008/08/19/how-to-win-a-fight-against-twenty-children/

I'd say that there are a couple of important notes that the author left out. 1. Based on size and weight, children make excellent projectiles and 2. children's top-heavy nature make them excellent mace or ball and chain style melee weapons for use against a larger number of adversaries.