A Case Study of Twenty Negro Catholic Families in Saint Charles Borromeo Parish, Harlem, Receiving Aid to Dependent Children Because of Absence of the Father From the Home
Abstract
This formal recognition of the importance of maintaining society’s basic social institution was in effect a crystilization of experience. It gave impetus to a new trend which was to have a profound effect upon the field of child welfare. As a direct result of the first White House Conference, a Mother’s Pension Law was adopted in Illinois in 1911 founded upon the principle that a child should not be separated from his home because of poverty alone. By 1934 all the states with the exception of Georgia, and South Carolina, as well as the District of Columbia and the territories, had enacted laws rooted in this principle.
Subject Area
Social structure|Individual & family studies|Social work
Recommended Citation
Backus, Willie Agatha, "A Case Study of Twenty Negro Catholic Families in Saint Charles Borromeo Parish, Harlem, Receiving Aid to Dependent Children Because of Absence of the Father From the Home" (1952). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30509534.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30509534
