Possible Clues:

• It provides openings for otherwise excluded children
• A supposed freedom from domestic restrictions
• Springlock opener
• Left at jail without old locker
• Describes a child who returns to an empty home
• Front door opener (for children with absent parents?)
• Entrance qualification for Yale?
• With 30-Across, one with two working parents, maybe
• Going out, they lack an opener
• The French get uncomfortable sensation missing one crucial means of gaining access