Woman denied 'Mother's Pension' in 1915

Woman denied 'Mother's Pension' in 1915

In 1915, the North Dakota Legislature passed a bill intended to make life easier for widowed women raising children. In September of that same year, a Stutsman County judge declared the law unconstitutional. The “Mother’s Pension” provided that a woman receive a payment from the county in which she resided of $15 each month for each child under the age of 14, if there was no man in the household. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about $475 …