Pretty much everything in society is now based on a cost risk benefit analysis.

If it is more dangerous to drive a 6 year old to moms work in the morning rather than stay in bed for 30 minutes in the morning, one would think that it is legal.

Leaving a sleeping child alone does put them at risk of a house fire for 30 minutes but it is less risk than from a car accident.

Is it legal for me to leave a child at home under these circumstances?

PRobably not.

I have to put them in the street in a m9oving vehicle during rush hour to obey the law.