Nissen is especially affecting when describing a lonely Miranda as a modern latchkey kid, spending her afternoons in an empty apartment, watching TV and painting her nails.
He added: "We did a a study on latchkey kids.
"I was one of the original latchkey kids," Mr. Edwards said in an interview, noting that his mother was divorced when he was 11.
At 3:04, no latchkey kids were yet home from school.
Even without these minor alterations, this story of the friendship between a suburban latchkey kid and a lost traveler from a distant planet would be worth revisiting on the big screen.
Other places to consider: children's hospitals, daycare centers, shelters, programs for "latchkey" kids, homework tutoring phone lines, and Big Brother or Sister programs.
Jakeem became a self-reliant latchkey kid who grew up on the streets and adopted a tough, foul-mouthed attitude in order to survive.
Some communities offer services through the police departments and community organizations to check in on latchkey kids.
A self-described "lonely latchkey kid," Benson dropped out of school following her sophomore year of high school, and left home when she was sixteen.
Hansel and Gretel, who live in virtual isolation with their impoverished parents, are prototypical latchkey kids.
Oh-those would be latchkey kids, running home.
But they are latchkey kids in a deadbolt world.
Ms. Strobel of the Cleveland service described some of them as "latchkey kids."
The media do get interested, of course, when one of these latchkey kids shoots up his school and kills a few students and teachers.
After his parents' separation in 1982, Chris and his brothers lived with their mother, and were latchkey kids.
More than a million latchkey kids go home to a house or apartment in which there is a gun.
The myth-making continued: raised as "latchkey kids" in homes where television was a surrogate parent, we 20-somethings felt abandoned, according to Time.
This was when the boys became "latchkey kids" and "things went terribly down hill from there" as Foster would later tell a reporter.
We have many latchkey kids who go home and lock the door until their parents get home.
The Turtles are latchkey kids with a vengeance, father in charge (unlike most of the divorced children in the audience; that separation theme again).