The Establishment of Maternal and Child Health Centers and Clinics

The establishment of maternal and child health centers and clinics was the result of

A) upper-class Christian women looking for an acceptable outlet for social activism.
B) the concern that the working classes would let their diseases go untreated and cause epidemics that would infect the upper classes.
C) the belief that working women had become "defeminized" by entering the public sphere and therefore needed instruction in caring for infants and children.
D) the Social Darwinist belief that such institutions would help the European "races" remain the most "fit" in an increasingly competitive world.