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7 million
kids home alone
WASHINGTON -- About 7 million
children between the ages of 5 and 14 regularly came home to empty
homes or were left unsupervised in 1995, according to a Census
report released today.
The report
is the first Census Bureau look at latchkey kids -- children who
regularly are left unsupervised at home after school. The report
includes the most recent Census Bureau data available.
Those kids -- about 18 percent of America's
38.2 million children between 5 and 14 -- were left alone an average
of six hours per week, according to Kristin Smith, the report's
author. Older kids were more likely to be left home alone: the
report found 9 percent of children aged 5 to 11 years old and 41
percent of children aged 12 to 14 regularly took care of themselves.
A 1990 national survey by the Urban Institute,
a nonprofit social research organization, found that 12 percent of
children between the ages of 5 and 12 were left alone.
The report also found that wealthier families
were more likely to leave their children at home alone, possibly
because of the comfort associated with living in traditionally safe
neighborhoods.
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