Shocking! /sarcasm
I took a graduate class with another teacher who didn't see anything wrong with "latchkey kids." He didn't deny that they existed, but didn't feel that grade-school kids being home alone for hours after school was a problem.
"but didn't feel that grade-school kids being home alone for hours after school was a problem."
I remember when I would come home from school. I would keep looking at the time and when it was close to the time Mom would be home, I would position myself at the window waiting for her. I was so lonely and couldn't wait to talk to her. Unfortunately, she had to get dinner ready and then she was just too tired to talk.
The left wing will say that the solution is a government program -- and a tax increase to pay for it, of course -- never realizing that the high tax rates and tax bracket creep are making it harder and harder to keep your head above water.
Twenty years ago when the tax tables were set the cutoff for contributing to your IRA before taxes was $32,000 and it was quite a good income then. If you made $32k per year and contributed to your IRA then that meant that you had disposable income. However, today you pay EXACTLY the same tax rate on $32,000 as you did then, but I can guarantee that you won't have very much disposable income.
Since you were a "navy brat", I am supposing that you have knowledge about not spending a lot of time with one of your parents. How did it effect you?