Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau). no. 102, 1922, Issue 102U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 |
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Page 57 - ... besides the toilet. A bathroom is highly desirable and should be included wherever possible. It may be considered essential in families where there are a number of older children in rooms which would not otherwise permit the necessary privacy for bathing. A public bath in the neighborhood will make it possible to dispense with one in the home. The most detailed standard is the "Minimum quantity budget necessary to maintain a worker's family of five at a level of health and decency...
Page 84 - A nursery school or class is an institution providing for the care and training of young children aged from two to five years, whose attendance at such a day school is necessary or desirable for their healthy physical and mental development. It has therefore a two-fold function : first, the close personal care and medical supervision of the individual child, involving provision for its comfort, rest and suitable nourishment ; and...
Page 84 - ... for children over two and under five years of age, or such later age as may be approved by the Board of Education, whose attendance at such a school is necessary or desirable for their healthy physical and mental development ; and (6) attending to the health, nourishment, and physical welfare of children attending nursery schools.
Page 74 - ... families. It was found further that where the father was a member of the family group and worked regularly his earnings were, in the great majority of cases, inadequate for the family support. On the other hand, attention was called to the other personal and social factors that entered in to complicate the problem and render it not exclusively an economic question. The children whose mothers were employed were found to suffer in a number of ways. The care that was provided for them during the...
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Page 56 - ... amount of fuel required under varying conditions, and other details which enter into the establishing of standards as drawn up by several budget groups may be found in Budgeting the Low Income, a report of the Budget Council of Boston which is obtainable through Community Health Association, Boston; The Chicago Standard Budget for Dependent Families, Chicago Council of Social Agencies, Chicago; A Suggestive Budget for Families of Low Income, Washington Council of Social Agencies, Washington,...
Page 58 - A young couple or widow with one or two small children may sometimes use one room of suitable size for kitchen, dining room, and sitting room. The size of the rooms should be in such proportion to the number of the family that it will be possible for each member to have closet and drawer space for his individual possessions. There must be suitable play space for children, either on the lot or on a properly supervised playground within reach. The neighborhood influences should be wholesome — well...
Page 74 - ... were on the whole unsatisfactory and compared very unfavorably with those of a group of children not selected on the basis of the employment of the mother. Among the older children, cases of behavior problems were found, sometimes a clear connection with the employment of the mother being indicated. In less tangible but possibly more important ways the children suffered from the fact that •their mothers were under the strain of carrying a double job, for it was found that most of the women,...
Page 20 - ... and $3 a week had 3 children cared for. While these payments, made from weekly earnings that were themselves small, are evidence of the seriousness with which the mothers took the problem of providing care for their children, they are so small that it obviously did not pay a woman to give a great deal of time to the task. In fact most of the women who undertook the work were either women living in the family group or women in the neighborhood, friends of the mothers who agreed to care for the...