a latchkey child

a latchkey child/kid

(mainly American)

a child who is often in the house alone because both parents are at work My dad came home at seven in the evening and my mom only an hour earlier so I was a latchkey kid.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Merfyn	-	Welsh
Ajdin	-	Bosnian
SelÂHattİN	-	Turkish
Ersilia	er-ZEEL-yah	Italian
Horacio	o-RAH-thyo (Spanish), o-RAH-syo (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Cybill	SIB-əl	English (Rare)