latchkey child
latchkey kid

There is some question about the number of latchkey children.

Many latchkey children have parents who can take calls from them at work only in an emergency.

The effects of being a latchkey child differ with age.

Q. What is the result of research on the so-called latchkey children?

The few other studies of the issue completed since then, however, have failed to find major differences between latchkey children and others.

"It has everything to do with latchkey children, inadequate day care and single mothers," he said.

Watch for all hell to break loose with the latchkey child who is raising himself or herself.

These and many others are "latchkey children," left on their own after school as parents juggle jobs.

It is a no-frills program for 56 mostly latchkey children, 5 to 12 years old.

They were inseparable as latchkey children in Dallas and still speak daily.

Latchkey children are those who return from school and let themselves into an empty home because their parents are at work.

What accounts for the white, middle-class characteristic of latchkey children in their findings?

Positive effects of being a latchkey child include independence and self-reliance at a young age.

Most companies are still grappling with how best to provide sanctuary for preschool and latchkey children.

Those who are at home are usually "moms" to latchkey children, too.

Indeed, so-called experts are now instructing latchkey children to do exactly that.

Many communities have telephone help services specifically for latchkey children who need an adult's guidance.

That is not my concern, despite the troubling statistics, at least relating to latchkey children.

While there are many latchkey children under 12, she said, the law usually comes into play only if a child is injured while alone.

He would grow up as a latchkey child.

A generation ago, the latchkey child was the most forlorn image in the parental universe.

My father died when I was 5 and my mother had to go to work, making me a latchkey child before the term existed.

An estimated 1.2 million latchkey children of elementary-school age have access to guns in their homes.

Researchers have been tracking latchkey children since the 1980's.

Overall, the study found no difference in social, emotional and academic well-being between latchkey children and those who went home to parents.