latchkey

Example Sentences

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I view that album in particular very much within the realm of a child who grows up in a latchkey situation.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s a lovely landing for a latchkey kid who grew up eating Jack in the Box, and we’re not mad at it.

From Salon

She mentions: "I was a latchkey kid, so I grew up with a lot of fast food and TV tray meals."

From BBC

Don’t tell helicopter parents, but the gleefully transgressive flicks that entertained a generation of latchkey wildlings are coming back in style.

From New York Times

She says growing numbers of one-parent households, unmarried parents and “latchkey kids” who walk into empty homes after school each day have eroded the foundations that taught past generations to endure routine stress.

From Washington Times