Mothers' Pensions (United States)

Mothers' pensions (also called mothers' aid or widows' pensions) provided public funds to mother- only families to prevent the breakup of families as a result of poverty. State legislatures passed enabling laws for mothers' pensions as early as 1911; but it ...

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