(2.) Minimum standards for public protection of health of mothers and children:
A. Maternity aids; B. Infants; C. Pre-school children; D. School children; E. Adolescent children.
(3.) Minimum standards in relation to children needing special care:
A. Adequate income; B. Assistance to mothers; C. State supervision; D. Removal of some children from their homes; E. Home care; F. Principles governing child-placing; G. Children in institutions; H. Care of children born out of wedlock; I. Care of physically defective children; J. Mental hygiene and care of mentally defective children; K. Juvenile courts; L. Rural social work; M. Scientific information.
(4.) General minimum standards:
A. Economic and social; B. Recreation; C. Child-welfare legislation.
Read the above and compare your local conditions with these standards. Do you think all these demands necessary?
FOOTNOTES:
[8] Described briefly in The Survey of November 12, 1921.
[9] In New Zealand, which has so many "modern improvements" in government, the proposition has been made to fix a basic wage for a man and wife without children, and make it the same as for a single man. In addition to this sum, each employer would be required by law to pay into a State Fund a sum slightly in advance of this wage for the single man and the childless married man, and that excess sum would be distributed in the form of a children's allowance to each parent according to the number of children. It is estimated that under this plan the total sum paid out in wages would not exceed that now distributed, but the receipt by the workers would be proportioned to responsibilities.