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#577 Kids Alone Till 6pm — Is It OK?
Niall opens the lines for a deeply divisive and emotional discussion sparked by an email from a worried listener.
She says her next-door neighbour — a single mother of two young children, aged around 11 and 7 — leaves them home alone every weekday while she goes to work, sometimes not returning until after 6pm.
The children come home from school, let themselves in, and stay unsupervised for hours. The listener says she tries to keep an eye on them when she can, but she works too. When she approached the mother, hoping for a friendly conversation, she was met with anger and told to “mind your…
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