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A latchkey kid, or latchkey child, is a child who returns to an empty home after school (or other activities) or a child who is often left at home with no supervision because their parents are away at work.
Lenore Skenazy didn't grow up as a latchkey kid, but is a vocal advocate for the type of unsupervised, unstructured time that kids enjoyed 30 to 40 years ago. Her organization (or movement, some say) is called Free-Range Kids and her mission is to combat what she terms as the "hysteria" among parents that their children are constantly in danger ...
How has the phenomenon of 'latchkey' kids, who are left alone at home after school, changed over the decades in Singapore? Find out how Singapore Children Society has been providing support and care for these children since the 1970s, and what challenges they face today.
Nov 9, 2015 · Children in the study could often call or visit parents, though some children preferred not to be called by parents while they were home alone. Belle writes that children “think about these arrangements and make sense of parental absence and their own lack of supervision in different ways.”
Nov 15, 2021 · By Kait Hanson. A new generation of kids who are home alone and serving as their own caretakers has arrived. They are the newest "latchkey kids," a term first introduced in the 1980s when...
The term "latchkey children", refeiring to minors who are unsupervised at home after school, gained currency in Singapore in the 1970s and 1980s. The phrase, laden with stereotypical associa- tions of parental neglect and attendant behavioural problems, is less often applied now, in an era where after-school care programmes have flourished.
Latchkey children, a term coined in the mid-20th century, refer to a group of school-age children who find themselves unsupervised during certain hours of the day, typically after school, due to the absence of their parents or guardians.
