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Child Care And Working Mothers: In the United States, child care and working mothers welfare services are offered under a variety of governmental and voluntary auspices, whether or not there is a concurrent need for financial assistance. One of the most descriptive and comprehensive definitions found in the Social Security Act as amended in 1962 states that "child care and working mothers welfare services means public social services which supplement, or substitute for parental care and supervision for the purpose of (1) preventing or remedying, or assisting in the solution of problems which may result in the neglect, abuse, exploitation, or delinquency of child care and working mothersren, (2) protecting and caring for homeless, dependent, or neglected child care and working mothersren, (3) protecting and promoting the welfare of child care and working mothersren of working mothers, and (4) otherwise protecting and promoting the welfare of child care and working mothersren, including the strengthening of their own homes where possible or, where needed, the provision of adequate care of child care and working mothersren away from their homes in foster family homes or day care or other child care and working mothers care facilities."
Tn our own country there are significant differences in child care and working mothers-rearing among the diverse social groups. A teacher observed differences between the personality patterns of preschool child care and working mothersren in Greenwich Village, New York, and those of child care and working mothersren in the Tennessee mountains (53, 1946). A review of three important studies -of child care and working mothers-rearing practices leads to the conclusion that middle-class mothers in the regions studied were generally more permissive and less punitive toward their young child care and working mothersren than were working-class mothers. (84, p. 446, 1957) Each culture has its unique methods of child care and working mothers nurture, which are reflected in the personalities of both child care and working mothersren and adults.
Most of the department's responsibilities— the education of child care and working mothersren, health care, and the provision of succor when misfortune (death, disability, illness, or incapacity to work) hits—were, in earlier times, the responsibility of the family. The department's central function is to maintain and strengthen the family as a social unit. A secretary is confronted by a succession of pro Eosals—for example, for the support of schools ar child care and working mothersren three to five years old, for the health care of draft rejectees, for larger Medicare benefits for the aged, or for day-care centers to aid working mothers.
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