Police: Parents Arrested After Leaving Kids Home Alone (http://goo.gl/twv3ye)
You can’t leave kids at home here: neighbors can easily call the police, and here is a link to a story about an arrest.
Most states, with rare exceptions, do not regulate the age at which children can be left home alone. However, if something happens to the children, parents can face serious consequences. Child Protection Services (CPS) issue various recommendations on what age children can be safely left alone at home. For our Masha, it’s an hour and a half. But even for an hour and a half, it’s better not to leave them, unless you want to meet the police at your doorstep.
For our Masha it’s an hour and a half, but there are a ton of additional factors taken into account, like whether the child can find the parents on their own if needed (for example, if they work nearby). Generally, it’s the mothers who go clubbing or wander off while the child sleeps who get caught. In Russia, this is incomprehensible, as what to do with children when they come home from school at two in the afternoon and the parents are at work – the state does not answer.
Mom could go to jail for letting her son play outside alone (http://goo.gl/u4ZPYq)
A recent case too – they put in jail a mother because a four-year-old child was walking alone in the yard, reportedly 35 meters from the house, at an apartment complex’s children’s playground.
In Police State USA, Kids Playing Outside is a Crime: CPS to Mom “Don’t let them play outside (http://goo.gl/MboUAC)
Children here never play outside. Not even the relatively older ones. You might see kids walking home from the school bus, and rarely, 15-year-old teenagers alone in the mall. Anyone younger is kept at home or in school just in case.
There’s even a book for sale on Amazon, Dark Secrets Within Child Protective Services (http://goo.gl/xWxmsQ)
Some details in Russian on local forums (https://goo.gl/mfWs4L)
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