Britain in the Second World War: The Evacuation of British Children.

Another reason why children were evacuated was because their fathers who would be on the front line giving there lives for Britain and everywhere would want to know that their children were safe from the bombing raids. It would also allow them to think only about the fighting and make them better soldiers. This would also be the same for the children’s mothers, who were playing a vital role for the government making munitions and keeping the countries war effort alive. If there children got sick they would have to take days off work to look after them, and during the day they would be constantly worried about them and would not make as many weapons and so forth. If they knew that there children would be safe away from the cities and having fun in the country then they would be generally happy, safe and healthy then they would work better, quicker and like the government more. Also giving the jobs of looking after children to people in the country would give them something to do in the war effort, they would probably feel left out from the war effort and this would give them an opportunity to do something for the country.  

This also works for the government, unless the soldiers are fighting, and the mothers are working hard then they would loose the war so that’s another reason why they evacuated children. It was good propaganda. If the Government moved all the children away from the major cities then they knew they would look good for them. It would appear that they are doing something for all of there people who were helping their war effort. So if they showed that they were caring and looked after the innocent victims of the war, and that they cared for the innocents then they would look generally better in the eyes of the people.

Another reason why the government evacuated the children from major cities was because they were the British of the future. The next generation of Britain would need all of these children, instead of thousands of innocent children dieing needlessly in bombing raids, they would live to grow up to be the next scientists and doctors and people who are needed in a post war Britain.