This chapter gives an overview of children's living arrangements in South Africa, drawing
mainly on household surveys. It draws attention to the diversity of family forms and living …

Globalization of knowledge and scholarship raises the challenges of dialogue between
Global North and South. Northern knowledge and voice remain privileged, while writing from …

Introduction Population distributions, family and household compositions, and people's
sense of belonging and social stability in southern Africa have been shaped by tumultuous …

Elena Moore and Chuma Himonga i For the purposes of this essay,“state” law refers to
common law and statutory law based on South Africa's English and Roman Dutch legal …

At the turn of the millennium, people with mental disturbance often lived in circumstances of
economic marginalization in South Africa. The historical material of one low-income urban …

In this paper, I explore kinship and other networks of support for young mothers and their
babies after an unintended, ex-nuptial pregnancy in a resource-poor urban setting. I draw on …

After completing or dropping out of school, many young people leave their family
households and in some cases they move from rural or semi-rural areas to urban centres …

ABSTRACT In rural Southern Chile, native Mapuche families receive care mostly from non-
indigenous clinicians. Parents and doctors alike orient to the importance of timely medical …

It is not always clear, through policies or law, where and when family responsibility ends.
This article outlines the tensions that underlie policy and legal conceptions of obligation and …

Fathers have a valuable, nurturing role to play in the lives of their children. Although a
father's availability and time with his child is important, the quality of a father's involvement …