Latch Key

I think my generation was probably the one for whom the term "latch-key" was invented. ❋ Unknown (2012)

When school started, Gracie would be, on the days of late tides, a latch-key kid. ❋ Glenn Klopfenstein (2011)

Listen, you probably hate me by now, but I was a latch-key kid who couldn't join the school newspaper or be on any teams because I had to rush home after school to take care of my little brother, the "messiah" my mother finally gave birth to eight years after I was born. ❋ Rochelle Jewel Shapiro (2011)

Now suddenly, I was gone all day every day, and Michael became a latch-key kid. ❋ BJ Gallagher (2011)

THE ONE opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Census data show that almost half of us come from split families; 40 percent were latch-key kids. ❋ Susan Gregory Thomas (2011)

I was thinking about putting in a neighbourhood latch-key kid who Jack takes care of. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This generation of latch-key kids as well as young kids of divorce were a first American teenagers to be informed -- incessantly, as well as persuasively, by TV shows as well as Hollywood movies -- what it's like to be an adolescent. ❋ Admin (2009)

The tenants of these apartments had full independence: a latch-key of their own, the ability to come and go when pleased, to invite male and female friends to tea, and host parties. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This era of latch-key kids as well as children of divorce were a initial American adolescents to be informed -- incessantly, as well as persuasively, by TV shows as well as Hollywood cinema -- what it's like to be an adolescent. ❋ Admin (2009)

Census data show that almost half of us come from split families; 40% were latch-key kids. ❋ Susan Gregory Thomas (2011)

He let himself in with a latch-key and climbed the stairs to the second floor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Care for the latch-key kids, the elderly, the disenfranchised, the marginalized, and the forgotten is a daily practice for every black church I know. ❋ Joel C. Gregory (2010)

She stood for a moment fumbling in her bag for her latch-key; then the door opened and she vanished inside. ❋ Unknown (2010)