What About The Children?

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s, educators, and nurses began to take an interest in the quality of care children were receiving in day care (57). Child care was becoming a place of child development instead of an institution to place children that had nowhere else to go. They began creating policies and laws to make child care facilities more efficient.
World War II brought along another aspect of child care. During the war women went to work while the men fought. This allowed child care to become even more popular than it was before. The government gave fifty million dollars towards day cares so young mothers could work in the industries (Seinfels 67). The government was not looking at the quality of care they were only concerned with the fact that they needed workers. Therefore this rise in child care was seen as a disaster. After World War II, twenty-eight hundred child care centers were closed and over a million and a half children were left without child care (69). Contrary to belief, many women did not leave their jobs after the war and child care was still a necessity.
There have been many different forms of legislation that have been created towards the development of child care. In 1933 The Federal Economic and Recovery Act...