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- Title
MOTHERS' PENSIONS AS A PREVENTIVE OF JUVENILE TRUANCY AND DELINQUENCY.
- Authors
Hunter, Joel D.
- Abstract
The article discusses the success or failure of the mothers' pension law. In many counties where it is said to have proven a complete failure the trouble is known to have been in the manner of its administration under incompetent officers. It has an effect on juvenile delinquency and truancy if it has been properly administered. It is a fundamentally sound principle of relief for the state to give to widows with minor children - widows who are fit mothers and who have not a sufficient livelihood to obtain the necessities of life - adequate and regular relief and to supervise the expenditure of the relief so that the result may be an improvement in the welfare of the children. Adequate and regular relief and efficient supervision are the basic principles of the Illinois Mothers' Pension Law. It has been shown that in ten years in the Cook County Juvenile Court, 14.5% of all delinquent children came from families in which the father was dead and the mother was trying to do both her own work as caretaker and the fathers' work as wage earner.
- Subjects
MOTHERS' pensions; FAMILY allowances; SURVIVORS' benefits; JUVENILE delinquency; CHILD welfare; PENSION laws
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1917, Vol 7, Issue 6, p802
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Editorial