She’s Considering Calling Child Protective Services On A Woman For Leaving Her Two Young Kids Home Alone While She Went To The Bar And Had Five Margaritas
Deciding when it’s appropriate to start leaving children home alone is a difficult question for all parents. However, most would agree that leaving any kid under the age of 9 or 10 years old at home by themselves is not safe.
So, what would you do if you found out another parent was leaving their young children – aged just 5 and 3 years old – home alone while they went out to drink?
One woman recently found herself in this situation, and she now wants to contact authorities to report it.
For some context, she was invited out to drinks with one of her friends the other night. Her friend also invited another woman who has two kids – ages 5 and 3.
“But the woman said that she couldn’t [come] until her children were asleep,” she recalled.
So, she and her friend were hanging out at the bar by themselves when, around midnight, the woman walked in and started ordering some drinks.
This prompted her to ask whether the woman was able to secure a babysitter for the evening. Well, the woman simply said no – revealing the kids were home by themselves.
The woman also went on to claim that it wasn’t a big deal since she lives only a few minutes across town and has cameras and monitors throughout the house in case anything were to go wrong.
Afterward, the woman actually stayed at the bar for nearly two hours – leaving once and showing back up again. Throughout that time, the woman also drank five margaritas.
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To her surprise, though, no one else seemed as concerned about the woman’s children as she was.
“It seemed like I was the only one who thought this was a big deal. The woman acted like she does this all the time,” she detailed.
Additionally, she personally knows the woman’s children, and her 3-year-old daughter is a “terror,” according to her.
It made her sick knowing that the woman was out getting wasted while her babies were at home. She doesn’t believe the presence of cameras makes even the slightest difference.
“And I have kids. Never once have I left them alone, not even to go to the store right down the road. And especially not for two hours and five margaritas,” she vented.
That’s why, in the wake of what happened, she’s actually considering contacting Child Protective Services (CPS) and reporting the woman.
However, she doesn’t know if they would even do anything, and she’s also not sure if that would be crossing a line.
Do you agree that leaving kids who are that young at home alone is dangerous? Should she report the woman or not? What would you do in her shoes?
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