Adult opinions about the age at which children can be left home alone, bathe alone, or bike alone: Second Injury Control and Risk Survey (ICARIS-2)

Mack, Karin A.; Dellinger, Ann M.; West, Bethany A.

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2012.06.001

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“…The older age of many of the children with contributory pre‐existing medical conditions who drowned raises difficult questions around the issue of supervision while bathing, which is a more commonly accepted practice for young children . The importance of active adult supervision should be highlighted for those parents and carers of children by health practitioners when children are diagnosed with epilepsy and autism.…”

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Unintentional fatal child drowning in the bath: A 12‐year Australian review (2002–2014)

Peden

Franklin

Pearn

2017

J Paediatrics Child Health

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Unintentional fatal child drowning in the bath: A 12‐year Australian review (2002–2014)

Peden

Franklin

Pearn

2017

J Paediatrics Child Health

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“…Our study describes examples of everyday processes in which children exercise their agency such as by assessing risks when they are home alone and making decisions to preserve their safety, in line with other studies (Ruiz‐Casares & Rousseau, 2010). Echoing previous research, participants recognized the influence of factors such as age and maturity of the child (Lamb & Ahnert, 2007), nature of activities done while unsupervised (Mack et al, 2012), and location, duration and frequency of the situation (Ruiz‐Casares, Rousseau, et al, 2012). Notably, research has identified that many children have the ability to, are comfortable with, and readily assume roles of caring for themselves and others, as well as household responsibilities, when home alone (Watkins et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 91%

Negotiating child agency in childcare practices among immigrant families

Gonzalez

Ruiz‐Casares

2021

Child & Family Social Work

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In the context of migration, different perspectives of child agency can influence childcare practices and may create tensions within families and in the host society.This study explores the individual, relational, environmental, and cultural factors that influence how child agency is understood and exercised within immigrant households. Focus group discussions were conducted with first-and secondgeneration immigrant children (12-to 17-year-old) (N = 46) and parents (N = 19) from South-Asia, Latin-America and the Caribbean in Montreal. Our findings suggest that children exercise agency by taking actions to ensure their own safety and contributing to their families' needs. Moreover, we found that negotiating children's agency is influenced by the nature of the parent-child relationship, the material and social resources available to the family, and the perceived and lived experiences of authority and safety in the host society. This study advances our understanding of how immigrant children contribute to their families and the role that contextual factors play in shaping, promoting and hindering child agency. Policy makers and service providers in host societies should consider the perspectives of immigrant children and parents in order to develop a more culturally responsive understanding of the elements and processes that influence childcare and supervision practices of immigrant families.

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“…A national randomized telephone survey of over 3000 U.S. English and Spanish speaking adults in 2007–2008 were asked to think about a typical child and indicate the minimum age that they could be left alone in their home without an adult (Mack et al, 2012 ). Overall, the average age survey respondents believed a child could be safely left home alone was 13.0 years old (95% CI = 12.9–13.1).…”

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Child abuse and neglect experts’ determination of when a child being left home alone constitutes child neglect

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BackgroundOnly 14 states have laws or guidelines regarding the minimum age a child may be left home alone. These ages range from 6 to 14 years. Our objective was to identify factors that influence child neglect determination by experts with regards to parents leaving children home alone.MethodsAmerican Academy of Pediatrics Section on Child Abuse and Neglect members (N = 523) were surveyed from July–August, 2015. Respondents were asked whether scenarios involving a child of varying age knowingly left home alone for 4 h were neglect in the presence or absence of injury to the child and the legality of the situation. Comparisons were performed using the chi-square test.ResultsOne hundred ninety-three members responded (36.9%). In the scenario where there were no relevant laws and the child was uninjured, nearly 100% of the child experts determined this as being child neglect when the child was 6 years old. For 8, 10, 12, and 14 year olds, this was 88, 48, 4, and 1%, respectively. However, a significantly higher percentage of experts considered it child neglect for most ages when there was a law making the scenario illegal as compared when there was no law, and when the child was injured versus when they were not. The only demographic variable that showed a difference in child neglect determination was that females were more likely to consider higher aged children as having been neglected when there were no laws but the child was injured. The vast majority of experts (85%) stated that leaving a child home alone for 4 h should be illegal if the child is < 9 years old, and nearly one-half (44%) said it should be illegal for children < 11 years old.ConclusionsA number of factors affect how experts view children being left home alone as potential child neglect. Our data suggests that such cases may be evaluated differently due to variations in state laws, even though the risk to the child is the same. These results call for child safety law reform to provide greater uniformity in the evaluation of potential child neglect cases and better protect the safety of children.

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Adult opinions about the age at which children can be left home alone, bathe alone, or bike alone: Second Injury Control and Risk Survey (ICARIS-2)

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Unintentional fatal child drowning in the bath: A 12‐year Australian review (2002–2014)

Unintentional fatal child drowning in the bath: A 12‐year Australian review (2002–2014)

Negotiating child agency in childcare practices among immigrant families

Child abuse and neglect experts’ determination of when a child being left home alone constitutes child neglect

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