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...disintegration of the nuclear family has so pervaded American domestic life that single mothers and latchkey kids are much more common today than member of the Leave It to Beaver genre of family. Escaped, a play written and directed by Heather Cross and performed at the Loeb Experimental Theater this January, examines the effects of one family's collapse on its female members...
...dropped 40% over the past 25 years, says the Family Research Council in Washington. This is not good news. Researchers have uncovered ominous links between absentee parents and behavioral problems among children. A 1989 survey of 5,000 eighth-grade students in Southern California found, for instance, that latchkey children were twice as likely to use alcohol and drugs as were children supervised by adults after school...
...Ronald Reagan was around longer than some of my friends' fathers," says Rachel Stevens, 21, a graduate of the University of Michigan. An estimated 40% of people in their 20s are children of divorce. Even more were latchkey kids, the first to experience the downside of the two-income family. This may explain why the only solid commitment they are willing to make is to their own children -- someday. The group wants to spend more time with their kids, not because they think they can handle the balance of work and child rearing any better than their parents but because...
...risk teenagers, is being launched in nine cities. In Omaha and seven other cities, elderly volunteers visit regularly with chronically ill children in a program called Family Friends. Generations Together, a research group based at the University of Pittsburgh, organizes phone links between older people and so-called latchkey kids, who return to empty homes after school. At the Point Park College Children's School in Pittsburgh, some preschoolers are being taught about aging by staff members, who are all over 55. The teachers use activities like planting seeds to illustrate the stages of the life cycle...
...that will provide $27 billion over five years to poor parents through income-tax credits and direct subsidies. The bill requires states to set health standards at day-care centers, expands Head Start programs for poor children and provides school- based care for up to 10 million so-called latchkey kids who would otherwise go unattended after school. In a compromise with conservatives, Democrats agreed to require states to issue vouchers that parents can use to pay for child care even at centers operated by religious institutions...