Excerpt from Selected Articles on Mothers Pensions
Should pensions, or allowances, be paid from public funds to mothers of dependent children?
Affirmative
Pensions should be paid to mothers of dependent children.
1. Because necessity exists, and no other adequate method is available.
2. Children are entitled to the care of good mothers, and mothers should not be deprived of their children merely because they are poor.
3. Dependent children should not be collected in orphanages or children's homes.
4. Child-placing agencies are kept busy finding foster homes for orphans and children who have been legally separated from unsuitable parents.
5. Methods of outdoor relief as usually practiced by county boards and other public officials are unscientific, wasteful, and tend to encourage dependence.
6. Private charity is uncertain and inadequate.
7. Society is entitled to a citizenship that appreciates the importance of the home as the source of what is best in a nation's life.
Negative
Public funds should not be apportioned in the form of allowances to mothers for the care of dependent children.
1. Private charity is more efficiently organized and can distribute relief more scientifically.
2. Knowledge of the existence of public relief will discourage thrift and industrious habits, and increase dependency by increasing family desertion.
3. Fraud and deception will be practiced and a mendicant class of society created.
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