Check with the local Civilian Defense Council to see if a Day Care Committee has been formed. War Is Hard on Children Children are among the victims in this war. War production demands more and more workers. Men, including fathers, are drawn into the armed forces.
Women go from their homes into industry.
By the end of 1948 it is estimated that 8,400,000 more women will join them. They will include many mothers of young children, in spite of the fact that the War Manpower Commission recommends that mothers of young children should not be used until all other sources of labor supply have been exhausted. The Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services estimates that as woman join the labor forces this year the welfare of between two and three million children will be affected. Mothers, themselves, win find ways of taking care of about three-fourths of these children. The rest, about three-quarters of a million children, will present problems of supervision and protection which the community will be called upon to meet.