How and why was the New Poor Law hostile to pauper mothers?

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Suggested Reading:

Marks, L. (1993) ‘Medical Care for Pauper Mothers and their Infants: Poor Law Provision and Local Demand in East London, 1870-1929’, Economic History Review, 46 (3), pp. 518-542. Nutt, T. (2010) ‘Illegitimacy, paternal financial responsibility, and the 1834 Poor Law Commission Report: the myth of the old poor law and the making of the new’, Economic History Review, 63 (2), pp. 335-361. Blaug, M. (1963) ‘The Myth of the Old Poor Law and the Making of the New’, Journal of Economic History, 23 (2), pp. 151-184.

Humphries, J. (1987) ‘“…The Most Free From Objection…” The Sexual Division of Labor and Women’s Work in Nineteenth-Century England’, Journal of Economic History, 47 (4), pp. 929-949. Martin, K. C. (2008) Hard and Unreal Advice. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Specifically chapters 4 and 6