Legal Age Child Stay Home Alone Illinois. The child s age and special needs whether they were left entirely alone. Illinois has the strictest laws in the country when it comes to leaving children unsupervised.
Illinois has the strictest laws in the country when it comes to leaving children unsupervised. The law illinois passed in response to the home alone case set the highest minimum age in the country for leaving children unsupervised. When is it legal to leave children alone.
The child s age and special needs whether they were left entirely alone.
The child s age and special needs whether they were left entirely alone. The law lists 15 factors the judge will look at to decide if a child was abandoned such as. Charles parents home alone case effects last an initial change to the illinois law that set the age to 14 stems from a case that took place in december 1992 when st. While the law in illinois defines neglect only where the child under 14 years old is left without supervision for an.