When will it go to leave your child alone at home? Here's what social workers say
Leave your children at home alone is a big decision. Social workers advise to wait until they are warned.
Whether you are comfortable or notLeaving your child alone at home It often depends on your parental style, as well as your culture. Leaving a young child without supervision is often a question ofControversy for parents; Some see it as learning to be ingenious and independent, while others consider it as one of theMany parental ways has changed in recent years. Now, new research presented atAmerican pediatric academy (AAP) 2019 National Conference and National Exhibition identified the age at which most social workers agree that it is acceptable to leave a child at home. Their consensus? Twelve years.
Researchers at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine at Iowa City, Iowa, interviewed 485 members of theNational Association of Social Workers (NASW) who work with children and families and found that more than half believed that it should be illegal to leave a child at home alone for four hours or more if he is under 12 years old. More than 80% of social workers said that leave a child under 8 at home is alone of negligence and about half said it was neglected if the child was 10 years old or older.
In addition, social workers were "more likely to consider childhood negligence when a child has been left home alone if the child had undergone an injury"Charles Jennissen, a pediatric clinical professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, said in adeclaration.
The authors of the study note that previous research has shown that theLack of adult supervision has contributed 40% of the deaths of children's injuries to the US nevertheless, most states have not established laws on the minimum ageThe child can be left alone. Those who makeIllinois, Maryland and Oregon-Place the ages at 14, 8 and 10, respectively.
Similar to the consensus of social workers in this recent study, theChild injury prevention alliance stipulates that "most children are not ready to stay alone at home before at least 12 years old", "and even then," should not be left alone for more than a few hours and never at night. "The Alliance also indicates that young children should never stay alone at home and" children are generally not ready to look at other children as long as they were even older [than 12] ".
They also advise parents to define limits and make rules on what children can do when they are left unattended. Children need to know how to get in touch with their parents and two other adults in case of emergency, and parents should lock everything they do not want their children to ingest (likeprescription drugs or alcohol). More importantly, parents should make sure their child actuallywants to be left at home alone, like feeling neglected or abandoned canCause anxiety and other questions.
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