Dependent Children, Child Custody, and the Mothers' Pensions
The Transformation of State-Family Relations in the Early 20th Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2484308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Vandepol (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 221-235 |
| Publication date | 1982-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/800156 |
| OpenAlex | W2087037103 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper challenges the widely-held belief that government has assumed increasing authority over family life in the United States. I explore the origins and development of welfare services for dependent children from the indenture system of the colonial days to the introduction of mothers' pensions in the early 20th century. Rather than intruding more into family life, government has moved from an initial disregard of the family unit to a reinforcing of parent-child ties by supporting the custody rights of the mother
Child custody · Criminology · Developmental psychology · Domestic relations · Family law · Family life · Family ties · Genealogy · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Transformation (genetics) · Unit (ring theory) · Welfare · Welfare state · Australian History and Society · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Psychology
The “Welfare Rights State” and the “Civil Rights State”
Women, the State, and Welfare
Gender in Early U.S. Social Policy
Sowing the Seeds of “Welfare”
Growing Up Dependent
Rescuing the 'Waifs and Strays' of the City
Nobody’s Children
Gender and Social Reproduction
Structure and Practice of Familial-Based Justice in a Criminal Court
Institution and Family
Social Construction of Social Problems Over Time
Anglo-American Criteria for Resolving Child Custody Disputes from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Women's Associations and the Enactment of Mothers' Pensions in the United States
Single Parenting in the African American Community
The incitement to self-interest
The Racial Origins of Foster Home Care
From the depths
From poor law to welfare state
Capitalist patriarchy and the case for socialist feminism
A history of social welfare and social work in the United States
The Professional Altruist
The discovery of the asylum
Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex
Consensus for Reform
Facing Life
The Struggle for Social Security, 1900-1935
Perspectives in Public Welfare
Children West
Journal of Marriage and the Family
Haven in a heartless world
The Triumph of Conservatism
Women and the Law
Unto The Least of These
Poverty and Dependency
Pensions for Mothers
Women's Proper Place
The Cult of True Womanhood
All Our Children
Parental Mistreatment
The Historical Triangulation of Family, Economy, and Education
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2025 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |