Why is it called latchkey

Party under the stars. An argument and gunfire ensued. He was the last man standing. He sobered up and walked to our house. We fed him breakfast. Then a West Virginia trooper came by to ask if we'd seen any strangers around.

A neighbor had found the bodies and called the police. Our visitor said, "You're looking for me. I was intending to be neutral: in many ways, I think 'fending for themselves' to a degree, is good for children.

I think we are in danger of raising a generation that is wildly over-protected. And there's an e-mail going around about how children survived back in the day with no seatbelts, modern medicine, etc. The harsh reality is, many children did not survive. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'latchkey child. Send us feedback. See more words from the same year.

Accessed 11 Nov. More Definitions for latchkey child. See the full definition for latchkey child in the English Language Learners Dictionary. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. In a four-year longitudinal study, Belle and colleagues looked at families with parents who were employed full-time and had at least one child in elementary school.

Parents and children were interviewed separately about things like after-school routines and loneliness. Diversity was spotted in terms of after-school arrangements, caretakers, ability to invite friends over, and even where after-school alone-ness took place. Children in the study could often call or visit parents, though some children preferred not to be called by parents while they were home alone.

Looking back on these studies, the assessments of child mental health in relation to after-school lack of supervision is less surprising than the fact that such a lack of supervision was so common. As Generation X continues to parent and their children come of age, it will be interesting to track the implications of constant child supervision and its absence from just a generation before. JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students. He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.

This is one of the most striking manifestations of the better side of child-nature and deserves a chapter to itself. The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.

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