Aid to Families with Dependent Children

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9767017
AutoresJane M Hoey (autor de correspondencia)
Año1939
Volumen202
Número1
Páginas74-81
Fecha de publicación1939-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000271623920200109
OpenAlexW2044336296
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14

worth noting that every protection offered by the Social Security Act-by unemployment compensation, and by its provisions for old age-means more security for the children of the families affected. But whereas family security is, as it were, a by-product in these and other programs included in the Federal Act, it is an explicit objective in the program for aid to dependent children. Title IV of the Act is expressly intended to provide assistance for dependent children living with parents or other relatives in their own homes. By the autumn of 1938, well over 600,000 children in more than 250,000 families were thus being cared for at home with cash allowances from combined Federal, state, and local funds. This emphasis on the family in public provision for dependent children is as basic as it is familiar. But although it has been accepted in principle at least since the first state mothers' aid laws were passed in 1911, it appears that we are only just beginning to understand all of its implications, and that we still have a long way to go in discharging our full obligations toward the children and families for whom aid to dependent children is intended. Yet this point of view-focusing upon the family in its relationship to the individual child-is the key to a just evaluation of our present program, as regards legislation and administration, as well as service. SCOPE OF THE PROGRAM

Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology