[The nuclear family and social protection of children].

The nuclear family is the consequence and reflection of rapid industrialization of the country. It requires a wider safeguarding of infancy in the framework of more extensive social and care service structures. Kindergartens and nursery schools are the basic answers to child care, coupled with the network of independent institutions, and hospitals, out-patients centres and school medical services, and the local health unit, which supervises services in its district. Mention is also made of the measures still needed to ensure that kindergartens and nursery schools are available and efficient, and what must still be done with regard to school medicine (prophylaxis, retrieval of the handicapped, rehabilitation) to achieve a more advanced system of social protection in childhood.