They learned early on that being alone wasn't an emergency.
Writer on boomer kids coming home to an empty house and the quiet self reliance that developed from that.
I was one of those kids. I remember coming home freezing after elementary school. I had gone ice skating and walked home, about a mile. I had forgotten my key and nobody was home. I broke a small window pane to open the side door. I was desperate to get warm. The folks didn't scold me at all.