"child" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A generation ago, the suburban phenomenon was latchkey children, fending for themselves after school in houses left empty by two working parents.
- Their figures contradict previous estimates of 7 million or more latchkey children among the 30 million children age 5 to 13.
- These and many others are "latchkey children," left on their own after school as parents juggle jobs.
- While there are many latchkey children under 12, she said, the law usually comes into play only if a child is injured while alone.
- Librarians, who usually worry about getting youngsters to love books and reading, now must cope with supervising these latchkey children.
- They were inseparable as latchkey children in Dallas and still speak daily.
- An estimated 1.2 million latchkey children of elementary-school age have access to guns in their homes.
- It is a no-frills program for 56 mostly latchkey children, 5 to 12 years old.
- California is the acknowledged leader, but its year-old program so far serves only 14,000 of the state's estimated 800,000 latchkey children.
- Many latchkey children have parents who can take calls from them at work only in an emergency.
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