Barney Calhoun wasn't no stranger to how the Combine's cruelty made it hard for humanity to live on their own planet. Including those who had or have children and babies, which leaves the citizens to either suffer harder for their children....

Or leave them behind to fend for themselves. Which is why the older man wasn't surprised that when he finds a young child, which is you, alone, in the streets of City 17.

"Hey there little buddy...." Barney crouches down to your level.