Entry
Reader's guide
Entries A-Z
Subject index
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 ...
- Canada
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Canada)
- Aging Policy (Canada)
- Bowers, Frank Swithun Barrington (1908–1992)
- Canadian Association of Social Workers
- Canadian Council on Social Development
- Cassidy, Harry (1900–1951)
- Child Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Community Development (Canada)
- Community Economic Development (Canada)
- Criminal Justice Policy (Canada)
- Davidson, George Forrester (1909–1995)
- Disability Policy (Canada)
- Economic Policy (Canada)
- Education Policy (Canada)
- Family Allowance/Child Tax Benefit (Canada)
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Food Assistance Policy (Canada)
- French Language and Identity (Canada)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (Canada)
- Group Work (Canada)
- Health Policy (Canada)
- Hendry, Charles Eric (1903–1979)
- Human Rights (Canada)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- International Social Welfare
- Kelso, John Joseph (1864–1935)
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Mental Health Policy (Canada)
- Multiculturalism (Canada)
- National Council of Women of Canada
- Philanthropy (Canada)
- Poverty (Canada)
- Quebec Province Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Race and Ethnic Relations (Canada)
- Religion and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Rural/Northern Social Welfare (Canada)
- Settlement Houses (Canada)
- Small Systems Social Work (Canada)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Security (Canada)
- Social Welfare (Canada): Before the Marsh Report
- Social Welfare (Canada): Since the Marsh Report
- Social Work Profession (Canada)
- Structural Social Work (Canada)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Canada)
- The Marsh Report (Canada)
- Touzel, Bessie (1904–1997)
- Urwick, Edward Johns (1867–1945)
- War and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Welfare Capitalism (Canada)
- Whitton, Charlotte (1896–1975)
- Women and Poverty (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Mexico
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Mexico)
- Aging Policy (Mexico)
- Child Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Constitution of 1917 (Mexico)
- Disability Policy (Mexico)
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (Mexico)
- Education Policy (Mexico)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Food Assistance Policy (Mexico)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (Mexico)
- General Insane Asylum: La Castañeda (Mexico)
- Housing Policy (Mexico)
- Hygiene and Public Health Policy During the Porfiriato (Mexico)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Informal Economy (Mexico)
- International Social Welfare
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Land Reform (Mexico)
- Medicine and Popular Healing Practices in Colonial Mexico
- Mexico City Poor House
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Neoliberalism, Social Programs, and Social Movements (Mexico)
- Peasant Movements and Social Programs (Mexico)
- Philanthropy (Mexico)
- Poverty (Mexico)
- Poverty Policy (Mexico)
- Rural Education (Mexico)
- Social Reform and State-Building (Mexico)
- Social Security (Mexico)
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Before 1867
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Since 1867
- Social Work Profession (Mexico)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Mexico)
- The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health (Mexico)
- Welfare Capitalism (Mexico)
- Welfare Ministries in the Twentieth Century (Mexico)
- Women and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- United States
- The Survey (United States)
- Abbott, Edith (1876–1957)
- Abbott, Grace (1878–1939)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (United States)
- Addams, Jane (1860–1935)
- African Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Aging Policy (United States)
- Aid to Dependent Children/Aid to Families With Dependent Children (United States)
- Altmeyer, Arthur Joseph (1891–1972)
- American Public Welfare Association (United States)
- Asian Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (United States)
- Ball, Robert Myers (b. 1914)
- Brace, Charles Loring (1826–1890)
- Charity Organization Societies (United States)
- Child Welfare Policy (United States)
- Children's Aid Society (United States)
- Cohen, Wilbur Joseph (1913–1987)
- Conservative Views on Social Welfare
- Criminal Justice Policy (United States)
- Disability Policy (United States)
- DuBois, W. E. B. (1868–1963)
- Economic Policy (United States)
- Education Policy (United States)
- Family Service Association of America (United States)
- Family Violence (United States)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- Food Assistance Policy (United States)
- Frazier, E. Franklin (1894–1962)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (United States)
- Hamilton, Alice (1869–1970)
- Health Policy (United States)
- Hispanic Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Homelessness (United States)
- Homestead Act (United States)
- Hopkins, Harry Lloyd (1890–1946)
- Housing Policy (United States)
- Hull House (United States)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- International Social Welfare
- Juvenile Justice Policy (United States)
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929–1968)
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (United States)
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford (1858–1932)
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw (1843–1905)
- Lurie, Harry Lawrence (1892–1973)
- Mental Health Policy (United States)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Mutual Aid (United States)
- National Association of Social Workers (United States)
- National Conference on Social Welfare (United States)
- Perkins, Frances (1882–1965)
- Philanthropy (United States)
- Poor Law (United States)
- Poverty (United States)
- Progressive Era (United States)
- Rank and File Movement (United States)
- Rankin, Jeannette Pickering (1880–1973)
- Religion and Social Welfare (United States)
- Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (1884–1962)
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945)
- Rush, Benjamin (1745–1813)
- Sanger, Margaret Higgins (1879–1966)
- Scientific Philanthropy (United States)
- Settlement Houses (United States)
- Social Gospel (United States)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Social Security (United States)
- Social Welfare (United States): Before the Social Security Act
- Social Welfare (United States): Since the Social Security Act
- Social Work Profession (United States)
- State Boards of Charities (United States)
- Substance Abuse Policy (United States)
- Supplemental Security Income (United States)
- Tax Expenditures (United States)
- The New Deal (United States)
- Van Kleeck, Mary (1883–1972)
- Voluntarism (United States)
- Wald, Lillian D. (1867–1940)
- War and Social Welfare (United States)
- Welfare Capitalism (United States)
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (1862–1931)
- Women and Social Welfare (United States)
- Work Relief (United States)
- Young, Whitney (1922–1971)
- Criminal Justice, Delinquency, and Crime
- Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (United States)
- Brace, Charles Loring (United States)
- Child Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Child Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Child Welfare Policy (United States)
- Children's Aid Society (United States)
- Criminal Justice Policy (Canada)
- Criminal Justice Policy (United States)
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Family Violence (United States)
- Homelessness (United States)
- Hull House (United States)
- Informal Economy (Mexico)
- Juvenile Justice Policy (United States)
- Kelso, John Joseph (Canada)
- Poverty (Canada)
- Poverty (Mexico)
- Poverty (United States)
- Social Reform and State-Building (Mexico)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Canada)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Mexico)
- Substance Abuse Policy (United States)
- Education and Social Service Programs
- The Survey (United States)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Canada)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Mexico)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (United States)
- Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (United States)
- Bowers, Frank Swithun Barrington (Canada)
- Brace, Charles Loring (United States)
- Canadian Association of Social Workers
- Charity Organization Societies (United States)
- Child Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Child Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Child Welfare Policy (United States)
- Children's Aid Society (United States)
- Criminal Justice Policy (Canada)
- Criminal Justice Policy (United States)
- Education Policy (Canada)
- Education Policy (Mexico)
- Education Policy (United States)
- Family Service Association of America (United States)
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Family Violence (United States)
- French Language and Identity (Canada)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (Canada)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (Mexico)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Policy Issues (United States)
- Group Work (Canada)
- Health Policy (Canada)
- Health Policy (United States)
- Homelessness (United States)
- Hull House (United States)
- Human Rights (Canada)
- Juvenile Justice Policy (United States)
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford (United States)
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw (United States)
- Mental Health Policy (Canada)
- Mental Health Policy (United States)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- National Association of Social Workers (United States)
- National Conference on Social Welfare (United States)
- National Council of Women of Canada
- Philanthropy (Canada)
- Philanthropy (Mexico)
- Philanthropy (United States)
- Religion and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Religion and Social Welfare (United States)
- Rural Education (Mexico)
- Rural/Northern Social Welfare (Canada)
- Scientific Philanthropy (United States)
- Settlement Houses (Canada)
- Settlement Houses (United States)
- Small Systems Social Work (Canada)
- Social Work Profession (Canada)
- Social Work Profession (Mexico)
- Social Work Profession (United States)
- Structural Social Work (Canada)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Canada)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Mexico)
- Substance Abuse Policy (United States)
- Touzel, Bessie (Canada)
- Urwick, Edward Johns (Canada)
- Voluntarism (United States)
- Wald, Lillian D. (United States)
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (United States)
- Employment and Labor
- Disability Policy (Canada)
- Disability Policy (Mexico)
- Disability Policy (United States)
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (Canada)
- Economic Policy (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (United States)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- Informal Economy (Mexico)
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Labor Movement and Social Welfare (United States)
- Land Reform (Mexico)
- Neoliberalism, Social Programs, and Social Movements (Mexico)
- Perkins, Frances (United States)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Welfare Capitalism (Canada)
- Welfare Capitalism (Mexico)
- Welfare Capitalism (United States)
- Women and Poverty (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Women and Social Welfare (United States)
- Work Relief (United States)
- Families and the Life Cycle
- Aged
- Children
- Aid to Dependent Children/Aid to Families With Dependent Children (United States)
- Brace, Charles Loring (United States)
- Child Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Child Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Child Welfare Policy (United States)
- Children's Aid Society (United States)
- Family Allowance/Child Tax Benefit (Canada)
- Family Service Association of America (United States)
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Family Violence (United States)
- Juvenile Justice Policy (United States)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Families
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Family Service Association of America (United States)
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Family Violence (United States)
- Homelessness (United States)
- Informal Economy (Mexico)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Women
- Family Violence (Canada)
- Family Violence (Mexico)
- Family Violence (United States)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Sanger, Margaret Higgins (United States)
- Women and Poverty (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Women and Social Welfare (United States)
- Health and Mental Health
- Disability Policy (Canada)
- Disability Policy (Mexico)
- Disability Policy (United States)
- General Insane Asylum: La Castañeda (Mexico)
- Hamilton, Alice (United States)
- Health Policy (Canada)
- Health Policy (United States)
- Hygiene and Public Health Policy During the Porfiriato (Mexico)
- Medicine and Popular Healing Practices in Colonial Mexico
- Mental Health Policy (Canada)
- Mental Health Policy (United States)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Canada)
- Substance Abuse Policy (Mexico)
- Substance Abuse Policy (United States)
- Income Maintenance Programs
- Abbott, Edith (United States)
- Aging Policy (Canada)
- Aging Policy (Mexico)
- Aging Policy (United States)
- Aid to Dependent Children/Aid to Families With Dependent Children (United States)
- Altmeyer, Arthur Joseph (United States)
- American Public Welfare Association (United States)
- Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (United States)
- Ball, Robert Myers (United States)
- Charity Organization Societies (United States)
- Cohen, Wilbur Joseph (United States)
- Conservative Views on Social Welfare
- Disability Policy (Canada)
- Disability Policy (Mexico)
- Disability Policy (United States)
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (Canada)
- Economic Policy (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (United States)
- Family Allowance/Child Tax Benefit (Canada)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- Food Assistance Policy (Canada)
- Food Assistance Policy (Mexico)
- Food Assistance Policy (United States)
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw (United States)
- Mexico City Poor House
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Neoliberalism, Social Programs, and Social Movements (Mexico)
- Perkins, Frances (United States)
- Poor Law (United States)
- Poverty (Canada)
- Poverty (Mexico)
- Poverty (United States)
- Poverty Policy (Mexico)
- Quebec Province Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Rank and File Movement (United States)
- Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (United States)
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (United States)
- Scientific Philanthropy (United States)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Social Reform and State-Building (Mexico)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Social Security (Canada)
- Social Security (Mexico)
- Social Security (United States)
- Social Welfare (Canada): Before the Marsh Report
- Social Welfare (Canada): Since the Marsh Report
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Before 1867
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Since 1867
- Social Welfare (United States): Before the Social Security Act
- Social Welfare (United States): Since the Social Security Act
- State Boards of Charities (United States)
- Supplemental Security Income (United States)
- Tax Expenditures (United States)
- The Marsh Report (Canada)
- The New Deal (United States)
- Van Kleeck, Mary (United States)
- War and Social Welfare (Canada)
- War and Social Welfare (United States)
- Welfare Ministries in the Twentieth Century (Mexico)
- Women and Poverty (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Women and Social Welfare (United States)
- Work Relief (United States)
- Race and Ethnic Relations
- Abbott, Edith (United States)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Canada)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (Mexico)
- Aboriginal People and Policy (United States)
- Addams, Jane (United States)
- African Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Asian Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Criminal Justice Policy (Canada)
- Criminal Justice Policy (United States)
- DuBois, W. E. B. (United States)
- Education Policy (Canada)
- Education Policy (Mexico)
- Education Policy (United States)
- Frazier, E. Franklin (United States)
- French Language and Identity (Canada)
- Hispanic Americans and Social Welfare (United States)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Mexico)
- Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. (United States)
- Multiculturalism (Canada)
- Quebec Province Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Race and Ethnic Relations (Canada)
- Rural Education (Mexico)
- Rural/Northern Social Welfare (Canada)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Young, Whitney (United States)
- Social and Economic Development
- Canadian Council on Social Development
- Community Development (Canada)
- Community Economic Development (Canada)
- Constitution of 1917 (Mexico)
- Davidson, George Forrester (Canada)
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (Canada)
- Economic Policy (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (United States)
- Food Assistance Policy (Canada)
- Food Assistance Policy (Mexico)
- Food Assistance Policy (United States)
- Homestead Act (United States)
- Housing Policy (Mexico)
- Housing Policy (United States)
- Hull House (United States)
- Informal Economy (Mexico)
- International Social Welfare
- Land Reform (Mexico)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Neoliberalism, Social Programs, and Social Movements (Mexico)
- Peasant Movements and Social Programs (Mexico)
- Philanthropy (Mexico)
- Poverty (Mexico)
- Poverty Policy (Mexico)
- Rural Education (Mexico)
- Rural/Northern Social Welfare (Canada)
- Settlement Houses (Canada)
- Settlement Houses (United States)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Social Reform and State-Building (Mexico)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Social Work Profession (Mexico)
- Structural Social Work (Canada)
- The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health (Mexico)
- Wald, Lillian D. (United States)
- Welfare Capitalism (Canada)
- Welfare Capitalism (Mexico)
- Welfare Capitalism (United States)
- Welfare Ministries in the Twentieth Century (Mexico)
- Government and Social Welfare
- Abbott, Edith (United States)
- Abbott, Grace (United States)
- Addams, Jane (United States)
- Conservative Views on Social Welfare
- Constitution of 1917 (Mexico)
- Economic Crises, Family and Gender, 1980s to the Present (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (Canada)
- Economic Policy (Mexico)
- Economic Policy (United States)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (United States)
- French Language and Identity (Canada)
- Hopkins, Harry Lloyd (United States)
- Housing Policy (Mexico)
- Housing Policy (United States)
- Human Rights (Canada)
- Hygiene and Public Health Policy During the Porfiriato (Mexico)
- International Social Welfare
- Land Reform (Mexico)
- Mother and Family Programs (Mexico)
- Mothers' Pensions (United States)
- Multiculturalism (Canada)
- National Council of Women of Canada
- Neoliberalism, Social Programs, and Social Movements (Mexico)
- Peasant Movements and Social Programs (Mexico)
- Poor Law (United States)
- Poverty (Canada)
- Poverty (Mexico)
- Poverty (United States)
- Poverty Policy (Mexico)
- Progressive Era (United States)
- Quebec Province Social Welfare Policy (Canada)
- Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (United States)
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (United States)
- Rural Education (Mexico)
- Rural/Northern Social Welfare (Canada)
- Scientific Philanthropy (United States)
- Social Democracy (Canada)
- Social Gospel (United States)
- Social Justice (United States)
- Social Reform and State-Building (Mexico)
- Social Reform Movements (Canada)
- Social Reform Movements (United States)
- Social Security (Canada)
- Social Security (Mexico)
- Social Security (United States)
- Social Welfare (Canada): Before the Marsh Report
- Social Welfare (Canada): Since the Marsh Report
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Before 1867
- Social Welfare (Mexico): Since 1867
- Social Welfare (United States): Before the Social Security Act
- Social Welfare (United States): Since the Social Security Act
- State Boards of Charities (United States)
- Structural Social Work (Canada)
- Tax Expenditures (United States)
- The Marsh Report (Canada)
- The New Deal (United States)
- The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health (Mexico)
- War and Social Welfare (Canada)
- War and Social Welfare (United States)
- Welfare Ministries in the Twentieth Century (Mexico)
- Nongovernmental Social Welfare
- Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (United States)
- Brace, Charles Loring (United States)
- Charity Organization Societies (United States)
- Children's Aid Society (United States)
- Family Service Association of America (United States)
- Group Work (Canada)
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw (United States)
- Mutual Aid (United States)
- National Association of Social Workers (United States)
- National Conference on Social Welfare (United States)
- National Council of Women of Canada
- Philanthropy (Canada)
- Philanthropy (Mexico)
- Philanthropy (United States)
- Progressive Era (United States)
- Race and Ethnic Relations (Canada)
- Religion and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Religion and Social Welfare (United States)
- Rush, Benjamin (United States)
- Sanger, Margaret Higgins (United States)
- Scientific Philanthropy (United States)
- Settlement Houses (Canada)
- Settlement Houses (United States)
- Social Gospel (United States)
- Social Work Profession (Canada)
- Social Work Profession (Mexico)
- Social Work Profession (United States)
- Voluntarism (United States)
- Women and Social Welfare (Canada)
- Women and Social Welfare (Mexico)
- Women and Social Welfare (United States)
166999
- Loading...
