Latch Key Kids

Latch Key Kids Families living on one income are a rarity, making it almost unperceivable to think of a parent being home on a daily basis to greet their child when he or she comes home from school. The birth of the two-income household was the beginning of the latch key kids (Dr. Heins, 1999). Today, about one third of all school-age kids, an estimated five million adolescents, so are so called latch key children. Many …

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