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Author Makiwane, Monde.

Title Children in South African families : lives and times / edited by Monde Makiwane, Mzikazi Nduna and Nene Ernest Khalema.

Publication Info. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UNKNOWN : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 320 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary This book presents a comprehensive overview of African children's lives in times of transition, transformation, and change some twenty-two years after political emancipation in South Africa. With diverse family formations, non-marital childbearing, and diverse parenting situations prevalent in South Africa, the book covers both the conceptual and theoretical questions that explore the context of children's experiences. It uses examples from a range of primary and secondary data sources to illustrate how resilience in children faced with adversity could be nurtured, demonstrating the links between theory and practice, and critically commenting on questions of epistemology by drawing on research with children within different African social and cultural contexts. While the volume affirms the complexities of explaining child adversity or privilege, it stresses the diversity of South African children's experiences and the importance of adopting both children's rights and Afro-centric perspectives to account for the commonality and diversity of childhood and children's empowerment in diverse family systems. The contributions also provide recommendations on how to respond and intervene in children's issues, from both practical and policy levels, in a dedicated manner to ensure that children are protected from harm, nurtured to succeed, and assisted during and after traumatic experiences. This volume represents a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of humanities, social science, development studies and public health, as well as policy makers, child practitioners, and child rights advocates.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: children in South African families / Monde Makinwane, Nene Ernest Khalema, Ntombizonke A. Gumede and Mzikazi Nduna -- Children's rights in South African families / Jace Pillay -- Continuity and change: relationships, childbearing and children's living arrangements / Monde Makiwane, Ntombizonke A. Gumede and Stanley Molefi -- The lives and times of children in child-headed households / Jace Pillay -- The impact of family structure on schooling outcomes for children in South Africa / Pedzisai Ndagurwa and Nompumelelo Nzimande -- Revisiting the gendered discourse on parenting in South Africa / Marlize Rabe -- Parent-child sexuality communication in the South African and African context / Nwabisa Jama-Shai and Sanele Mdanda -- Re-claiming the significance of Ulwaluko initiation rite in the Eastern Cape, South Africa / Anele Siswana -- Fathers' expectations of traditional male initiation for their sons: implications for the uptake of HIV prophylactic voluntary medical adult male circumcision / Lynlee Howard-Payne and Brett Bowman -- The need for research on father-daughter relationships in South Africa / Elmien Lesch and Frederika Scheffler -- "Where are we going to find him now?": mothers dealing with absent and undisclosed fathers / Livhuhani Manyatshe -- Coping strategies and resilience of young women with absent fathers in Soweto, South Africa / Thandeka Mdletshe -- Psychological support for young women in distress: Eastern Cape, South Africa / Mzikazi Nduna -- Child disability and the family / Wiedaad Slemming and Sadna Balton -- Contesting children's positioning in South African families / Nene Ernest Khalema, Mohammed Vawda, Catherine Ndinda and Monde Makiwane.
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Subject Children -- South Africa.
Children.
South Africa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Other Form: Print version: Children in South African families. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 1443897353 (OCoLC)954226493
ISBN 9781443899918 (electronic book)
1443899917 (electronic book)
9781443897358
1443897353