Its a legal minefield because some parents are getting arrested for not supervising &quot;baby sitting age&quot; girls.<p>And with teen pregnancy you can end up in weird scenarios like a mom with her toddler legally requiring a grandparent, technically.<p>I&#x27;ve seen some writings that its a pretty effective weapon against people of the wrong demographic.  The same crazy cat lady who files HOA complaints for having the wrong species of daisy in the flowerbed will hover over the neighborhood&#x27;s jews or blacks or whatever she doesn&#x27;t like, until she sees a kid alone in the backyard long enough to snap a picture, then CPS is called in.  Its not that we don&#x27;t like section 8 people, or republicans, or whatever, its just that we don&#x27;t like unsupervised kids, you see.<p>I&#x27;ve also seen writings that in some municipalities this is the only way to handle barking dogs.