In episode 5 Dr. Freeman explores the family division's origins that appears at first to have been similar to early English history of child support. Then he explains how later, the systems diverged the child support and the approach became an addition to "the welfare state". He then reveals how the US developed a more aggressive child support obligation during the 19th Century, with criminal law being enacted for the fathers causing mothers and their children to become a burden on the community and the tax payers. He also discovered In England, for instance, families received a universal "Child Benefits" to defray the costs of raising children. Then comes along the Social Security Act of 1935 (Public Law 74-271) this included Aid for Dependent Children. ADC (later AFDC; F = Families) established a partnership between the federal government and the states...etc