Child Day Care and Working Mothers

Archive Report

Cark for Children of Working Women

Administration's Support of Day Care Centers

Efforts of leading child welfare organizations to obtain increased tax support for day care centers for the children of working mothers are receiving the encouragement of the Johnson administration. Politicians have not shown much interest in such projects in the past except when, as during World War II, the labor of women was urgently needed to meet a national emergency. When the emergency passed, legislators reverted to the traditional view that government should not assist mothers of young children to take jobs by furnishing them free or low-cost baby sitters.

When Congress first authorized appropriation of federal funds for day care centers in 1962, it appeared finally to have recognized a sociological fact of life: ...

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