RFP Staff/Yale Locks/Protect America
♦ Thousands of children are left home alone in Salisbury, N.C. and Rowan County because their parents work two jobs or their parents need be elsewhere for whatever reason. While afterschool programs and “sitters” may be available for some children, large numbers of latchkey children exist in impoverished Salisbury, N.C. and in Rowan County. Here are some critical tips for parents forced to be elsewhere. Following these tips could save a child from various in-home dangers, strangers and predators knocking on the door, break-ins of unattended home, and any number of dangerous situations that might occur when children are home alone.