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The effects of being a latchkey child differ with age. Loneliness, boredom and fear are most common for those younger than ten years of age. In the early teens, there is a greater susceptibility to peer pressure, potentially resulting in such behavior as alcohol abuse, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity and smoking.
The author and her husband give independence to their kids like the one she had growing up as a latchkey kid. Courtesy of Friends & Lovers Photography We have three kids, ages 7, 9, and 12
From trying to stay out of trouble to making all of it, the experiences were as varied as the families these kids belonged to.View Entire Post ›
Generation X, born from 1965 to 1980, has a sort of aura about us that includes the idea that we raised ourselves, that we were the latchkey generation. That's a cool-sounding way to say we were ...
The culmination of her work was published in The Handbook for Latchkey Children and Their Working Parents (with Thomas J. Long) [20] and On My Own: The Kids Self-Care [21] as well as in dozens of articles. Long's research on Latchkey Children has been reported by every major news outlet and in hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. [22] [23]
Latchkey kid, a child who returns from school to an empty home because their parents are away at work; The Latchkey, a 1910 film by the Thanhouser Company; Operation Latchkey, a series of 38 nuclear test explosions conducted in 1966 and 1967 at the Nevada Test Site; The Latch-Key Child, the first album by the child rapper A+
OPINION: Social media is giving latchkey kids a moment which is something my kids will know nothing about The post I was one of those latchkey kids back in the ’80s and ’90s—my kids would ...
Latchkey Kids is an upcoming American black comedy film [1] directed by John J. Budion and starring Elsie Fisher and Alan Kim. [2] Plot. Shae, a very smart nine year ...