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Latchkey children refer to children who carry their own key and let themselves into their homes. These children generally hold their own key because both of their parents are out of home, usually at work

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Late adolescence refers to a a period dominated by the goal of achieving intimacy and commitment, and the conflict of closeness versus distance

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Late adulthood is an alternative phrase for "Older adulthood".

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Late onset refers to the presentation of a disorder or syndrome beginning after the expected age of onset.

Late syphilis refers to the fourth and final stage of syphilis, during which the disease does damage to major organs of the body such as the lungs, heart, or brain.

Late-onset (or adolescent-limited) trajectory refers to the growth curve of individuals who become more aggressive, often for a limited time, during adolescence or young adulthood after having been relatively non-aggressive during childhood

Late-selection theory refers to a model of attention in which all perceptual messages, whether attended or not, are processed for some meaning.

Latency is a term in Psychoanalytic theory which refers to a period of psychosexual development during which the child interacts with peers and imitates the behavior of parents and other adults of the same biological sex as the child.