To deal with what he called the “child-care problem,” he said, the government had created a range of federally funded child-care options: “nursery school projects” for small children, aftercare for school-aged kids, and even home care, set up in boardinghouses, for infants. But American mothers were suspicious of child care, he lamented, because it was a “new idea” and nobody had ever offered it to them before. As a result, Taft said, children were running amok, and the government was sending social workers around to try to convince working mothers that putting their children in child care was
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