0 being responsible for a child while the child's parents are absent: --
The hosts and hostesses who are now in loco parentis are usually doing their best to make the children happy.
There seems to be no strict definition of in loco parentis.
We wish neither to increase nor to decrease the numbers who could claim to be acting in loco parentis.
That is not acting in loco parentis as a moderate and reasonable parent would.
All schools have a very special duty to care for their children—the in loco parentis concept.
The state acts in loco parentis, so it could contribute by using the child benefit that would otherwise be paid.
I find it hard to believe that the teachers do not have some in loco parentis responsibility.
After all, if one asks what it is that parents do—in other words, what "in loco parentis" means—they look after children.
