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The "Problem of Duty": Family Desertion in the Progressive Era

This article examines the response of social welfare activists to male desertion of dependent families between 1890 and 1920. Charity workers and settlement residents initially worked to define the unique family problems presented by male desertion, but after 1900 began to advocate revision of existing statutes penalizing the deserter. By 1915, however, this period of punitive reform gave way to a new emphasis on deserters' psychological inabilities to adjust to a "proper" family life.