She had been a
latchkey kid on a sinkhole Vienna housing estate, who often came home alone and went to bed when her mother Brigitta was still out.
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If I didn't have to spend half my salary making sure my daughter was looked after and my son wasn't a
latchkey kid, I'd be all over 70s-inspired suede or Victoriana.
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But he's also a neglected
latchkey kid, leading Mel to lodge a complaint with child welfare authorities.
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(He was a lonely,
latchkey kid who tried, in vain, to adopt a puppy.) But those explanations aren't necessary.
Yoshitomo Nara
Off the field, Williams didn't feel as much at home, growing up a
latchkey kid in a broken home in San Diego, divorcing three times and often being absent as a father.
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The phrase
latchkey kid, a media scare term two decades ago, has all but vanished from the press.
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AND SO IT GOES, WITH ALEXANDER PLAYING the role of
latchkey kid caught between an abusive mother (the 104th Congress, with its Contract With America) and a vaguely well-meaning, but always absent dad (Bill Clinton, who's busy enough with his own problems).
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Despite that fact, NBC has actually had the most success with laffers in recent years, launching hits "My Name Is Earl" and "The Office" as well as the acclaimed "30 Rock." In the 1980s, when Silverman was a self-described
latchkey kid enamored of TV, network execs similarly declared the sitcom a dead format--until "The Cosby Show" came along.
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Her child isn't a
latchkey kid. She was, in fact, present when her 2-year-old child was watching a police drama that no 2-year-old could possibly understand, even if it contained not a single shootout.
The children's hour
What with mom (Karen Chilton) regularly pulling double-shifts,
latchkey kid Drey could use a little substitute parenting--even from Dunne.
Half Nelson
..a Canadian journalist ...over The
Latchkey Kid, said what did this frail old lady know about life?
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As a
latchkey kid of working-class Irish immigrants, she dove into song after school to avoid the "social desolation" of her Manhattan neighborhood in the 1950s.
Her ministry is the Spirit in song welling up within her
My 22-year-old son was a
latchkey kid. I often had to work beyond a 39-hour week.
Your Shout
A rare Taiwanese move away from navel-gazing, "Bear Hug" is a warmhearted, surprisingly unsentimental view of families fractured by geography and opportunity, mostly from the p.o.v, of a 9-year-old
latchkey kid. Pic should be a smash on the kid-fest circuit and is worth a look for arthouses ready to go further afield.
Bear Hug
Recalling her own childhood as a
latchkey kid, her mother, a computer programmer, went back to work when she was three, she said: "I never wanted that for my daughter.
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