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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The latchkey generation is handsoff with child rearing? Ya don't say....[/quote]

[b]Xers need to let this latchkey kid thing go.[/b] Do you think millennials suddenly had parents at home after school for some reason? No, ours were working too. We all ate bagel bites and watched trl unsupervised. Xers aren't special.[/quote]

I think they think it makes them sound cool? [/quote]

No.  But it defines us because, while it became commonplace later, we were the first generation that had latchkey kids because we had working mothers.  Yes, now, many families are like this, but when it happened in the 70s and 80s, there was no precedent for this.  Boomers and silent generation kids were never left alone like that.  [/b]Their parents always had a SAHM or the kids went with their parents to employment.[b]  [/quote]

That is a quite inaccurate statement and likely only describes middle-upper class families anyway. My dad who is 75 and thus firmly in the “boomer” generation was a latchkey kid of a single working mother. He grew up w many other kids who also were latchkey kids of dual-income families or single parent families. This was in a poor, working class area. There were no affordable childcare options for working mothers then and not all mothers could simply take kids to work w them (my grandmother couldn’t take my dad w to her workplace).[/quote]

Yes, my parents are Boomers and they had working mothers. They were working class families. They probably had older siblings or other relatives watching them after school. [/quote]

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