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> "the child is likely to be taken over by the State" I'd be interested what daycare and school looked like in 1922, because arguably childcare is mostly state

• throwawaygh 5y ago
  In 1920, * the high school graduation rate was around 16%. (Up from below 10% in 1910!) * only 8 million women were in the labor force * Child labor laws either actually or functionally did not exist (the major federal laws were not passed in the 30s.) * The industrial revolution was in full swing, but huge swaths of the labor economy were still very agrarian. For the working class, early childhood care was provided by mothers and beyond that daycare/schooling was provided by the factories and farm fields.