For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming home to an empty house. Some of them watch TV at 1. Some of them may hide themselves in2places. But all of them have 3in common. They spend part of each day 4. They're called latchkey children. The latchkey children 5 to look after themselves while their parents work.
Lynette Long was once the 6of a junior middle school. She said, “We have made a school rule against 7 jewellery. A lot of children had chains(串) with keys8their necks. I was 9 telling them to put them inside their shirts. There were so many keys that I didn't understand what they 10.” Slowly, she learned that they were 11 keys. She and her husband began 12these children. They 13that fear is the biggest problem 14 by children at home alone. Over 30% of the latchkey children were worried about their own 15.
