Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index.
1. Pearl Harbor: Fears and Nightmares -- 2. Depression Children and War Babies -- 3. "Daddy's Gone to War" -- 4. Homefront Families on the Move -- 5. Working Mothers and Latchkey Children -- 6. Rearing Preschool Children -- 7. School-age Children Fight the War -- 8. Children Play War Games -- 9. Children's Entertainment: Radio, Movies, Comics -- 10. The Fractured Homefront: Racial and Cultural Hostility -- 11. Children's Health and Welfare -- 12. "Daddy's Coming Home!" -- 13. Confronting War's Enormity, Praising Its Glory -- 14. Age, Culture, and History -- 15. The Homefront Children at Middle Age