Children Wait Outside The Family Welfare Bureau, October 1939

Published In
Ann Arbor News, October 30, 1939
Caption
Friendly advice and experienced counsel await behind the door of the Family Welfare Bureau for the three children shown in the above photograph members of one of 400 families which the bureau helps keep together in the face of disrupting influences and material hardships. When food is scarce and the future uncertain, a discordant note often threatens to split husband and wife, with the children being the principal sufferers. This is the type of problem which is brought almost every day to the door of the Family Welfare Bureau - the problem of keeping the family intact. The bureau's trained, sympathetic workers seek to solve those problems of human welfare, by helping the family re-adjust itself, helping husband and wife budget their income, helping them find work, material relief, medical or nursing care through other public and private agencies. The Family Welfare Bureau is one of the agencies affiliated with the Community Fund, which tomorrow will open its campaign for $55,000 in contributions to continue the Fund's cause in 1940.