Families and Households in Post-apartheid South Africa

We know that the structures of families and households have changed in recent decades and that this has profoundly affected public policy planning and service delivery in South Africa. The family institution interfaces with other social institutions in any society. Therefore, it stands to reason that the political, social, and economic transformations resulting from colonialism and apartheid in South Africa have affected families and their residential dimension, the household, for all cultural groups.

Product Information

Format:

280mm x 210mm

Pages:

248

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2190-1

Publish Year:

2007

Rights:

World Rights

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2. Towards a conceptual framework for families and households
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3. Living arrangements in South Africa
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4. The economic well-being of the family: Households’ access to resources in post-apartheid South Africa, 1995 – 2003
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5. Family formation and dissolution patterns
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6. Fertility and childbearing in South Africa
Martin Palamuleni, Ishmael Kalule-Sabiti & Monde Makiwane

7. Children’s household work as a contribution to the well-being of the family and household
Sharmla Rama & Linda M Richter

8. The family context for racial differences in child mortality in South Africa
Tim B Heaton & Acheampong Yaw Amoateng

Professor Acheampong Yaw Amoateng is a family sociologist and former Director of Research in the Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme at the HSRC.

Professor T.B. Heaton is a Professor and Research Associate at the Center for Studies of the Family at Brigham Young University in the United States. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Carolina Population Center and the Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are family change in developing countries, marriage and divorce.