US Criteria
Boys/girls (in the USA) who are eligible to become Lone Scouts include:
- Children of American citizens who live abroad
- Exchange students away from the United States for a year or more
- Boys/girls with disabilities that might prevent them from attending regular meetings of packs or troops
- Boys/girls in rural communities who live far from a Scouting unit
- Sons/daughters of migrant farmworkers
- Boys/girls who attend night schools or boarding schools
- Boys/girls who have jobs that conflict with troop meetings
- Boys/girls whose families travel frequently, such as circus families, families who live on boats, etc.
- Boys/girls who alternate living arrangements with parents who live in different communities
- Boys/girls who are unable to attend unit meetings because of life-threatening communicable diseases
- Boys/girls whose parents believe their child might be endangered by getting to Scout unit meetings
- Boys/girls being home schooled whose parents do not want them in a youth group
- Ref. www.scouting.org below
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