During the Second World War, women in the United States who worked in the war industries in such jobs as welders, riveters, heavy machinery operators, and parachute riggers were heralded in the media as "Rosie the Riveter." From 1943 to 1945 a fortunate few of these workplace pioneers participated in a memorable experiment in child care at Kaiser shipyards. Here, two of the most ambitious, business-run, on-site child care centers in the United States were established to meet family needs. The centers were called "a new [employer-employee] development in industrial relations" and "a model for child care in the post-war world". The Kaiser Child Service Centers were built with both the child and the family in mind. The centers paid attention to the whole child, including social, emotional, mental, and physical needs. At the war's end, Kaiser's shipyard Child Service Centers were dismantled. Today, however, as families depend on two salaries to meet higher costs of living, even more American women are working, but on-site child care tied to workplaces remains limited. Kaiser's legacy provides a model not only for superior child care, but for care in a setting supportive of the "whole" family.