Rosie the Riveter and Her Latchkey Children: What Americans Can Learn about Child Day Care from the Second World War.

Tuttle, William M., Jr.

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Publication Date: 1995

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Rosie the Riveter and Her Latchkey Children: What Americans Can Learn about Child Day Care from the Second World War.

Tuttle, William M., Jr.

Child Welfare, v74 n1 p92-114 Jan-Feb 1995

Suggests that concern for "latchkey" children during World War II was hyperbolic. Examines the variety of successful solutions parents devised for child day care: (1) day care arrangements made by families themselves; (2) Lanham Act child day care centers; (3) centers operated by private industry; and (4) the very successful Extended School Services for school-age children. (TM)

Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Welfare, Children, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Government Role, Latchkey Children, Mothers, Social History, World War II

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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