Over the course of the twentieth century, the leadership at the Children’s Bureau lost their fight to keep all federal child health and welfare policies under one administrative roof – something that was crucial to their vision from the beginning. This began when President Roosevelt placed the New Deal’s largest new program for mothers and children, Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), under the Social Security Board (SSB) in 1935. It accelerated in the latter half of the twentieth century when new federal policies to support poor young children, like Head Start and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), were again placed under different agencies. Today, federal programs that provide services to families with young children are spread across a sprawling number of agencies that report to different federal departments and Cabinet Secretaries. State and local agencies are left to combine too few dollars from too many sources in order to provide services.