Abstract
This article analyzes the administration of mothers' pensions in Michigan from 1913 to 1940. Michigan’s 1913 law placed the program in the juvenile courts to separate the program from the state’s poor relief system. Probate judges had an extraordinary amount of discretion in determining who received pensions and for how much. Judicial discretion fostered variations in the law’s practice, and many counties used poor relief practices. Mothers’ pensions officially entered the realm of poor relief when the state passed the 1939 Welfare Reorganization Act. The law replaced mothers’ pensions with the federal Aid to Dependent Children program, administered by welfare agencies.
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