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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check your state regulations - in MD, kids should be 8 to be at home alone. I walked home alone from 2nd grade - every day at home for 2-3 hours after school - did not turn out scarred, although I cannot quite imagine doing the same with my kids. :)[/quote]

It's funny how MD has that regulation, yet there's no law on how old kids have to be to walk home from school alone!

In our neighborhood there's no bus transportation to the neighborhood school -- kids are expected to walk, and there are no laws about "only 8 to walk alone".[/quote]

The law is actually that you cannot be out of the sight of your parent or designated agent until you are 8.  So, that does include walking to school or playing outside, yes.[/quote]

Are you sure about that?   The law I was thinking about was this one -- says kids may not be locked or confined in a house, car etc. but I don't see anything about may not walk home from the bus stop or go to a park.

[quote]Maryland Code Section 5-801:

A person who is charged with the care of a child under the age of 8 years may not allow the child to be locked or confined in a dwelling, building, enclosure, or motor vehicle while the person charged is absent and the dwelling, building, enclosure, or motor vehicle is out of the sight of the person charged unless the person charged provides a reliable person at least 13 years old to remain with the child to protect the child.[/quote][/quote]

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