[enteeentee]

Being a latchkey kid encompasses a ridiculously large group of people.

Me being a middle class kid of a divorced mother who finishes work an hour or so after I finish school in the UK fits.

Plenty of other people with family in worse economic positions fit the definition too. Not turning up till late evening, later shifts.

Makes no sense to lump them all together.

[soco]

Parents don't even have to be divorced to be a latchkey - I was one, being raised in an Eastern Europe city with both parents working and no grandparents readily available.