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Da kommen die Eltern, um ihre Kinder abzuholen.

I've researched a bit here but still couldn't get how the um is used in this example.

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'Um' in this context means 'in order to'. 'Um etwas zu tun' is a standard formulation in German.
'Für' is not used in that sense

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