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Excerpt from Public Pensions to Widows With Children: A Study of Their Administration, in Several American Cities These principles had long been held by many members Of this Con ference, but they were then for the first time crystallized into compact form and published so Widely as to awaken all parts of the country to a realization of their importance. Many went away from that Con ference convinced of their universal application, and took active steps to reduce the population of existing child-caring institutions and to prevent the creation of any new ones in their several communities. The resolutions adopted by this White House Conference were with out doubt the strongest single factor in developing the sentiment for widows' pensions which has found such strong and widespread expres sion during the last few months. The policy of some of the better-equipped private societies of pro yiding a lump sum by the week or month, often called a pension, without which the mother and her dependent children would be separated, has during the last few years gained wide favor, and the demand 'in the nation for the general adoption of such a policy has rapidly grown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.