At what age can a child be left home alone?
It varies from state to state, but usually you're looking at about fourteen. They normally don't let kids that are under the age of fourteen or what everyone calls 'latch-key' children, have long periods of time where they're waiting for their parents to come home. These are kids, often who have to make there own dinner, they have to make sure they do their own homework, because that's the situation in their family. They just can't afford a baby-sitter, or can't be where they need to be for their kids. But one of the things that I would go on, more than age, is maturity, because people usually use an age level to decide whether or not a child can stay home, and I know, literally, I know twelve-year-olds that are so street-smart that they would have no problem being alone. Even though they should be a little bit older than that, the law constitutes. The other side of the coin is, I know eighteen and twenty-year-olds that are so gullible that you'd never want to leave them alone. And the law says that they're perfectly fine and they're adults. So don't just go, you want to fallow the law. You want to call your own state to find out how young a person can be to be left home alone. But more than that their maturity levels involved. You really need to know whether or not they can take care of themselves.
