I noticed that early game when I had no tools and would purchase them from the trader, they would not show up in storage and the workers that I wanted to have them didn’t get them. Turns out, the children are equipping them for their occupation.
I happened to see others noticing the same thing via the discord server, too.
I did ran a search here to see if it’s been reported, but I found only this post, which was in General. However, this is from September 2022, indicating this has been going on for awhile.
This is a huge penalty to early game when the only way to get tools is via trade, which are often very expensive.