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Stay-at- Home Knows: In the homemaker service program, a carefully selected and agency-trained parent substitute is sent into the child's own home instead of providing him with foster care or supplementary care outside his home. This method offers many advantages over foster care for some children and their families, and is often less costly. Homemaker service makes it possible for children to stay in their own homes and bridges the gap caused by the absence of the mother when she is incapacitated but in the home and, in some instances, when she has died.
The highest rate of absence is among five- and six-year-olds, who are absent, on the average, more than one in every ten days (79,1950).
Parents can reduce absence because of communicable diseases by detecting the first signs—sore throat, sneezing, running eyes and nose, flushed face, cough—and keep'ig the child home from school. If he does come to school, the teacher should either send him home or, if the parents are at work, to a neighbor's house, or to an isolation room in school—or at least keep him six feet away from other children. Absence has been reduced when both children and teachers with colds stay at home.
The query in this title becomes, in the case of France, Silly Question Number One, for the most hearthbound stay-at- home knowshome knows plenty of cogent answers. For my own pleasure in reminiscence and anticipation of more visits to come, I'll set down a few basic answers.
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