Florida Mom’s Arrest Sparks A Home-Alone Debate [The Question]

A Florida mother faces four felony child neglect charges after leaving her kids, ages 9 to 14, home alone for five days while she was in Las Vegas. The case, which came to light after a 9-year-old was injured by a falling dumbbell and called 911, has reignited the long-running debate over how much independence is appropriate for children and where the line between parenting judgment and criminal neglect falls.