While many foster children are taken in by loving families, many are put into group homes which have been described as horrific. Arizona's foster program is looking bleak.
There's more to this question than meets the eye. The age you can leave a kid home alone in Arizona depends on WHERE you're leaving him or her, and for how long.
When a high school science teacher noticed how perfectly herself a student was, unswayed by peer pressure to conform, the idea for a children's book was born. Sierra Vista Science Teacher Elizabeth Doran was inspired to write "Perfectly Alice".