14 year old left alone overnight

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I'd appreciate some opinions, please - my eldest GD (14) lives with her dad, chose to 2 years ago because of her mum's volatile/drunken behaviour. The mother has gone abroad for a week, today, taken her other 2 kids (didn't invite the 14-year-old). She asked GD to feed the pregnant cat twice every day - a walk of 1.5 miles each way. She left 3 pouches of food. The cat gave birth this morning, and GD has been there all day, caring for the cat and kittens. I bought 4 x 12 pouches of food. She doesn't want to leave them alone all night, so she has offered to be with them all night. I don't agree that it's right. She isn't "street-wise", but is sensitive and caring. What do others think?

Innit. I was perfectly capable to spend a night alone at 14 😵‍💫

She is 14, not 4! and minutes away from adults she knows, in a house she knows well, with a phone. Of course she is fine!

She’s 14. She doesn’t get to say ‘I don’t want you to stay’, it’s not her decision to make. She’s a child. Her father should have insisted. I don’t see why leaving the house at 7am prevents him from staying over?

Most of the time a 14 year old will be ok home alone but by not letting them stay alone overnight you’re protecting them from the “what ifs”.

last year I was home alone with my 2 DDs when we were burgled. Although they didn’t get into our actual house, they breached our external security and were in the process of breaking in when the police arrived. It was utterly terrifying and me and my adult DD were very frightened, never mind my 14 year old.

How would your GC have managed if one of the kittens had died, or if she’d got unwell herself, or slipped on the stairs or been woken up by noises in the night.