That was unusual. My mother in law had to go to work for a short period of time because my father in law was laid off, but someone was always home for the kids
My next door neighbors owned a restaurant so the parents were both gone a lot. My other next door neighbor was a single mom, so she was gone a lot.
I had a trampoline and a pretty big playhouse. The neighbors pushed the trampoline to the playhouse and would jump off the playhouse until the trampoline. I was too scared to do that.