National help for child care is overdue

Rosie the Riveter got federal support; must it take a war?

My daughter Anna was always organized. At 4 she insisted on laying out her clothes at night for the following day. She continued that practical streak when she became the mother of an energetic, take-no-prisoners daughter, Ellie, who is now nearly 4.

So when Anna and her husband Rob started thinking about having another child, I wasn’t surprised when sh…