latchkey

I view that album in particular very much within the realm of a child who grows up in a latchkey situation.

It’s a lovely landing for a latchkey kid who grew up eating Jack in the Box, and we’re not mad at it.

She mentions: "I was a latchkey kid, so I grew up with a lot of fast food and TV tray meals."

Don’t tell helicopter parents, but the gleefully transgressive flicks that entertained a generation of latchkey wildlings are coming back in style.

She says growing numbers of one-parent households, unmarried parents and “latchkey kids” who walk into empty homes after school each day have eroded the foundations that taught past generations to endure routine stress.