0 a child who has a key to his or her home and is often alone at home after school has finished for the day because his or her parents are out at work
Mack wanted to make the character a latchkey kid, in an effort to explain why she is out all hours of the night.
Jakeem became a self-reliant latchkey kid who grew up on the streets and adopted a tough, foul-mouthed attitude in order to survive.
The "latchkey kid" is a fact.
With deregulation will come an increase in the number of latchkey kids.
They should hang their heads in shame when it comes to latchkey kids.
There was nothing shameful about women working then and there was no talk of latchkey kids.
If both parents are at work and there are no after-school clubs, we will have latchkey kids, and all of the problems that go with that.
