The Unwed Puerto Rican Mother Receiving Public Assistance in New York City a Cultural Interpretation of Twenty Active Cases of the East End Welfare Center of the Department of Welfare, 1956
Abstract
Timeliness and Importance of the Study. Alternately condemned, pitied, maligned, and assisted, but always misunderstood; this has been the lot of the unwed mother in our civilization. Even in the field of social work, there are few problems which are more difficult to resolve and about which there is such a divergence of opinion. Though, to be sure, the plight of the unwed mother has always been difficult, that of the unwed Puerto Rican mother in New York is even more so.She is, as it were, a victim of "progress". In her native culture she was rather easily accepted. However, she finds herself completely rejected in the new culture. Her own kind, among whom she lives, are not certain as to whether they wish to accept her. She stands as a pitiful victim of assimilation, caught in a storm with little hope of ever attaining a sheltered refuge.
Subject Area
American studies|Social work
Recommended Citation
Robidoux, Albert Pierre, "The Unwed Puerto Rican Mother Receiving Public Assistance in New York City a Cultural Interpretation of Twenty Active Cases of the East End Welfare Center of the Department of Welfare, 1956" (1956). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050501.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050501
