‘The family’ has become a significant and growing focus of study across a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities, social sciences, and law. In South Africa, there has been controversy and substantial debate over an apparent ‘crisis of the family’ during the last two decades. Ideological contestations have emerged over social morality and appeals for a return to traditional ‘family values’. In order to provide a better understanding of the supposed ‘crisis of the family’, it is necessary to use public opinion data to explore family cohesion, family values and the promotion of family life.
SASAS - Family Matters: Family Cohesion, values and wellbeing promotes the family by drawing on unique data to offer insight into the diverse realities of contemporary family life in South Africa. It explores a series of family-related values and preferences, and charts the basis and nature of support for policy intervention in the family.
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1 Introduction
Part 1: Family cohesion
2 Satisfaction with family relationships and overall quality of family life
3 Family functioning and economic status
4 Intergenerational consensus within families
5 Patterns of alcohol consumption in South Africa: Implications of harmful drinking for families
6 Intimate partner violence and family cohesion among ever married women and men in South Africa
Part 2: Family values and the promotion of family life
7 South African public opinion on family rights for lesbians and gay men: Entry points for activism and interventions
8 Embracing the child: The acceptability of adoption
9 Attitudes towards marriage in post-apartheid South Africa
10 Is a woman’s place still in the home? Gender role attitudes and women’s position in the South African labour market
11 Regarding Baba: Perceptions about fathers and fatherhood in South Africa
12 Filial responsibility and caring for the aging
Part 3: Family strengthening
13 Social determinants of self-rated health, social inequalities in health and family life
14 Views on work-family balance in South Africa
15 Child poverty: Social perceived necessities
16 Lone mothers’ accounts of the impact of poverty on their dignity: A South African perspective
