PEDIATRICS Vol. 1 No. 3 March 1948, pp. 429-432
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PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING AND MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

Editors: LEONA BAUMGARTNER.

THE idea of holding a National Conference on Family Life was developed in 1944 by the American Home Economics Association, which enlisted the interest of the National Planning Association in developing such a conference. By June 1946 more than a hundred national organizations had sponsored the undertaking and the president had offered the courtesy of the White House "as a place of meeting and as evidence of my official and personal interest." To date the sponsoring organizations are composed of 125 national organizations, with a total membership of forty million peoples. Included in these sponsoring organizations are: the American Medical Association, the American Dental Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The conference proposes to consider the problems that are facing the American family today. Their announcement points out that:

"For generations, the church, the school and social and other agencies have been aware of an increasing number of problems which tend to cripple and destroy family life. Through study and application of experience, they have worked out many satisfactory methods of meeting these problems.

"In recent years there has been a mounting interest on the part of numerous sciences, organizations and governmental departments in special aspects of family life. Each has developed a fund of information, experience and practical knowledge which, taken altogether, could be a substantial safeguard for every family in America.