Duty of woman to maintain children

(1) Every widow and unmarried woman is hereby required to maintain her own children, and every woman having children to whom any man is primarily bound under section 48 of this Act to maintain, is hereby required to maintain those children in the event of his failing to perform his obligation. (2) Every woman is hereby required to maintain the children of any child that she has had, in the event of the parents of those children and of any man primarily bound under section 48 of this Act to maintain them failing to do so, so long as they respectively are under the age of eighteen years, or are by reason of bodily or mental infirmity unable to maintain themselves. 39