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- Newsgroups: alt.child-support
- Path: sparky!uunet!vicorp!mc
- From: mc@vicorp.com (Mark Charalambous)
- Subject: Re: "Key children", children with parents at work.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.154658.20569@vicorp.com>
- Keywords: Children parents work
- Organization: V. I. Corporation, Northampton, Massachusetts
- References: <1992Nov18.082238.27983@hsr.no>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:46:58 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- karl@hsr.no (Karl Martin Lund) writes:
-
- >Some friends of mine are working on a papir on what we in Norwegian call
- >key-children. It's children in the age about five to twelve years who
- >for some reason have no parents at home when they for instance arrive home
- >after school. The reason may be that the parents are at work. The children
- >then have their own key, and have to spend time on their own at home.
-
- >They (my friends that is, not the children) are trying to find out if this
- >will have any effect on the kids in any way.
-
- >But these friends suffer from a lack of material. Is there anybody out there
- >who are able to help out? If you've read any books or articles about this
- >subject, or have any comments on your own, please mail me or send
- >followups.
-
- >BTW, is there an English term for key-children?
-
- Yes. They're called "latch-key" children.
-
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- > /// | Karl Martin Lund | No DoD# | Find no hope in nothing new |
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- --Mark
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