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What's a latchkey kid? Also, to maximize health benefits for the children, breastfeeding is preferable (according to WHO, for 2 years), which partially takes a

• johnnyanmac 3y ago
  That's just what they called kids who had a house key ("latch" being the keyhole). They would either be capable of walking home, going in the house, and being okay by themselves for some hours before the parents got home. Or in the older days they would simply wander the neighborhood or town and come back in before sundown. of course, these days that is considered borderline child abuse to kids under 13, but those days weren't that long ago. Can't say much about the breastfeeding. if that needs to be from the source and is an invariant for you you are definitely treading in deep waters. Still not impossible, but wet nurses are a very archaic concept (and crazy expensive these days if they still exist).