Pensions
OLD AGE responsibility of the state in regard to the welfare of its more handicapped citizens. In this country it may be said that the sentiment for mothers' pensions first found practical expression in 1912, when the State of Washington passed a law granting a subsidy to widowed women with dependent children. Divorced and deserted women were excluded from the benefits of the law, on the theory that it tended to encourage divorce and desertion on the part of the husbands. This law was amended in 1919 to include divorced and deserted women as well.
The example of Washington was rapidly followed by other State legislatures, until, in 1920, thirty-six States made more or less provision for unsupported women with dependent children. As illustrations: in California only widows are included; in Colorado any parent unable to care for its children is included; in Illinois pensions are granted to widows or women with incapacitated husbands; in Idaho the recipient must be a widow, or a woman with a husband in the penitentiary or in an insane asylum; in Kansas pensions are granted to women widowed, divorced, or with husbands physically incapacitated or in the penitentiary or in an insane asylum, or deserted by her husband for more than three months. Throughout all the States the pensions average from $21 to $24 a month.
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