Getting An Exception Stating The Null Value Cannot Be Assigned To A Member With Type System?

Lets say I have two tables:

Parent
PK
ParentID[code]....

These tables have a relationship where the Parent can have 0 to many Children.I wrote this query "Select * from Parent left outer join Children on Parent.ParentID = Children.ParentID", thus returning all Parents regardless of whether they have children.This would return something like this if run directly against the database:

ParentID
FirstName
LastName[code]....

Now what I would like to do is use the ExecuteQuery method on my LINQ data context to run this query and return the set of objects related to it.What I am expecting to happen is have LINQ return two Parent objects one (Joe Smith) with one child in its Children collection and one (Tina Jones) with nothing in the Children collection.However what I am getting is an exception stating "The null value cannot be assigned to a member with type System.Int32 which is a non-nullable value type.I am assuming, since the error message is not very descriptive, that it is talking about the fact the ChildID is an integer and is not nullable and cannot correctly generate a Children object with that value.