ABSTRACT
Over 20 years ago, the Children’s Bureau held a National Conference on Day Care Services (U.S. Department of Health, Education, & Welfare, 1966) at which Mary Dublin Keyserling called for day care for every child who needs it. Two years later, the Children’s Bureau and the Women’s Bureau sponsored a follow-up conference (U.S. Department of Labor, 1967) at which a familiar plea was made: “The Children’s Bureau must share part of the blame for the failure to look at reality in today’s day care picture, when thousands of infants and young children are being placed in haphazard situations because their mothers are working” (p. 14).
