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ˈlatch·key N

latchkey
latchkey

ˈlatch·key child N

latchkey child

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English
Latchkey kids may or may not have done their own laundry, but they knew how to put a dish in the dishwasher and lock a door.
www.startribune.com
What's it like to be a latchkey child?
news.bbc.co.uk
Being an overlooked bunch of latchkey kids tends to take that out of you.
thefederalist.com
It was being a latchkey kid all over again.
www.vice.com
But for a generation of latchkey kids, many of whom craved that tribal sense of belonging more than anything, it really was a family.
www.theatlantic.com
Without it, proponents say, there will be endless commutes, massive gridlock, lost business and latchkey kids without parents.
www.metronews.ca
The important thing for all these buyers is to find a latchkey property so that they can travel or live elsewhere and not worry about it.
www.foxbusiness.com
If it seems a stretch to segue from that 21st-century college encounter to a column about 20th-century latchkey kids, please indulge me for a minute.
www.startribune.com
The trappings were modern: a white melamine flat-pack kitchen, a fridge decorated with alphabet magnets, the fat-knotted school ties and untucked shirts of feisty latchkey kids.
www.independent.co.uk
Positive effects of being a latchkey child include independence and self-reliance at a young age.
en.wikipedia.org

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