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latchkey child/kid
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a latchkey child/kid (mainly American)
a child who is often in the house alone because both parents are at work. My dad came home at seven in the evening and my mom only an hour earlier so I was a latchkey kid.
See also: child, kid
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Clement, a latchkey child whose "mother has grown listless since her husband deserted her," nevertheless
"The Kindergarten of New Consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the ... by Flynn, Richard / African American Review
From this arose latchkey (1825) and -- just 50 years ago -- latchkey child, sometimes called doorkey child, the socioeconomic label for "a young child of working parents who must spend part of the day unsupervised (as at home) -- called also latchkey kid" (Merriam-Webster's 10th).
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