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<text id=93TT1045>
<title>
Mar. 01, 1993: Home Alone Is No Place to Be
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 14
SOCIETY
Home Alone Is No Place to Be
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<p>A rash of deaths reaffirms that child care is a national problem
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<p> Sheree Williams and her husband Leroy Lyons came home to a scene
of unimaginable horror. While they were away for 45 minutes,
all seven of their children, left unattended, had perished in
a swift, smoky blaze that gutted their two-story house on Detroit's
east side. Iron burglar bars on the windows had prevented the
youngsters, ranging in age from seven months to nine years,
from escaping. In New York City two children, ages seven and
five, died when a fire broke out in the basement of an unlicensed
day-care center whose owner had stepped out for a few minutes
just before the flames started. The rash of deaths underscores
once more the extent to which an increasing number of parents,
through economic hardship or simple irresponsibility, are unable
or unwilling to get reliable child care. In many cases, including
these two, the social service agencies empowered to prevent
such disasters do not react until it's too late. In Detroit
the police were conducting an investigation into whether the
parents should be charged with neglect or involuntary manslaughter.
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