Status
Available
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Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
Description
Shedding light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute "deadbeat dads," this book traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make "runaway husbands" support their families. It analyzes the history of antidesertion reform from its emergence in social policy debates.
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Language
Original publication date
2007
Physical description
viii, 175 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0807857793 / 9780807857793
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History