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 parents are forced into this situation due to various reasons. One of the most common reasons is when the child feels too old for a babysitter, usually around the age of thirteen. Other circumstances such as the lack of good day care services and prohibitive costs may drive the issue even further. There are conflicting opinions about the effects of leaving teens on their own.Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro compared a group of forty eight la
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