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Article: Aid to Dependent Children (1935)
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Aid to Dependent Children (1935)
Felice Batlan and
Linda Gordon
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id to Dependent Children or ADC (later renamed Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC) (P.L. 74-271, 49 Stat. 620), was Title IV of the Social Security Act of 1935. At first it functioned mainly to provide federal grants to help the states maintain their mothers' aid laws which had been passed in forty states between 1910 and 1920. With the federal government providing one-third of costs, the program offered aid to poor parents, assumed at that time to be always women caring for children alone.
The ADC plan was written by Grace Abbott and Katherine Lenroot, at that time the previous and current directors of ...