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Study covering nearly six hundred pregnant women in east-central Detroit in 1965, three-quarters non-white, concludes patterns of "ideal" maternal behavior are class-derived, and not necessary for healthy pregnancies.

Traditional child rearing attidues characterize poor women who have never worked outside the home.

Studies "social histories of group of unmarried mothers [87% black] as to their common characteristics, their differences, the problems presented by them other than financial, and the services rendered by agency to the mother and child."

Autobiography relates Mrs. Haviland's life in "educational and missionary effort among Canadian Negroes near Detroit River in early fifties."

Defends budget requests of demonstrating mothers

Examines attitudes of mothers in a near east-side Detroit area.

Club of high school girls founded in Detroit in 1942, with Mrs. Edward Davis as their chosen sponsor, adds new chapters.

Of three groups compared as to weight, practices on vitamin, iron, and mineral diet supplements, and eating permissiveness, one is Negro women, aged forty to ninety, living in an industrial area, probably Lansing.

Elliottorian Business Women's Club since founding in 1918 by Mrs. Elizabeth N. Ellott, has provided clearing house for women in clerical work.

Chapters on Detroit and Hamtramck cite work of Mesdames Pinkie Taylor, Dollie Gladden, Mary Shields and Emma Cheeseboro.