A Crisis can be many things such as a parental conflict, sudden illness, housing problems, or any situation that causes stress for parents that could be harmful to a child. They will provide you with the resources to strengthen your family. They are privately run and not part of the county social service system. Their services are provided free of charge. Parents and legal guardians are the only ones who can arrange for their children to stay with the Children's Home Crisis Nursery.
Staff tells no one where the children are unless there are signs of abuse or neglect.
Often, they're the children of working parents. Always, they're the parent's worry. Experts estimate that from 5 to 12 million children between the ages of 5 and 13 are at home alone for some period of time every day. In many cases, their parents either cannot afford childcare, or none is available. There is no magic age when a child can be left home alone.