Wives without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York, 1900-1935

by Anna R. Igra

Book Overview

Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute "deadbeat dads," Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make "runaway husbands" support their families. Anna R. Igra investigates the interrelated histories of marriage and welfare policy in the early 1900s, revealing how reformers sought to make marriage the solution to women's and children's poverty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807857793
• ISBN13: 9780807857793
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.2"