Gender and social assistance in the first decade of democracy: A case study of South Africa's Child Support Grant

Politikon ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Goldblatt
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Child Support Grant

The Relationship between the Child Support Grant and Teenage Fertility in Post-Apartheid South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-519
Author(s):  
Eric O. Udjo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Child Support Grant ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Governments often provide some form of social assistance to vulnerable groups. The right to social security is enshrined in the South African Constitution and the Social Assistance Act 13 of 2004. The country provides for a child support grant to single parents or caregivers who are low-income earners. The impact of the child support grant on teenage pregnancy in South Africa has aroused interest in the last couple of years, sparking debate that it may be encouraging teenage pregnancy. However, empirical evidence has been produced to confirm this relationship. This study examines the relationship between receiving the child support grant and being pregnant with another child in two national data sets using logistic regression analysis and empirical data. The results indicate that teenagers who receive the child support grant are significantly less likely to be pregnant with another child compared with teenagers who do not receive the child support grant.

scholarly journals Social assistance and dignity: South African women's experiences of the child support grant

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Wright ◽  
David Neves ◽  
Phakama Ntshongwana ◽  
Michael Noble
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Child Support Grant

scholarly journals ‘To be a woman is to make a plan’: a qualitative study exploring mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant in supporting children’s diets and nutrition in South Africa

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. e019376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanga Zembe-Mkabile ◽  
Rebecca Surender ◽  
David Sanders ◽  
Rina Swart ◽  
Vundli Ramokolo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Child Support Grant ◽  
Mothers Experiences

Social workers implementing social assistance in Spain: reshaping poverty in a familialistic welfare state

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Sergio Sánchez Castiñeira
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Grey Zone ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Emotional Approach

This case study analyses some of the processes that are restructuring public social assistance in the inequality regime that emerges from the recent economic recession in Spain. It shows how social workers turn what could be an inefficient public program into an active social policy through a cognitive, normative and emotional approach. A highly qualified and vocational workforce compensates meagre institutional support and lack of opportunities by instilling in the new poor new knowledge, abilities and attitudes to access basic informal resources from the local context. However, social workers’ agency could eventually contribute to confine clients within the material and symbolic limits of an expanding grey zone with scarce opportunities and diminished well-being, between inclusion and exclusion. This research is based on semi-structured interviews (17) and focus groups (8).

scholarly journals Child Support Grant access and receipt among 12-week-old infants in an urban township setting in South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanga Zembe-Mkabile ◽  
Tanya Doherty ◽  
David Sanders ◽  
Debra Jackson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Child Support Grant ◽  
Urban Township

scholarly journals Challenges and Risks of Individualisation in The Netherlands

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudie Knijn
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Economic Independence

This article evaluates recent transformations in social policy that reflect the tendency towards individualisation in The Netherlands. Such transformations have taken place in old age pensions, widows' pensions, social assistance and taxation, and in respect of child support following divorce. Interestingly most reforms have not resulted in ‘full individualisation’, but rather have taken into account the fact that people, in particular women, are not or cannot be assumed to be full-time adult workers. Such a ‘moderate individualisation’, however, is not without risks for women's economic independence, especially when the developments of the Dutch ‘life course perspective’ on social security are considered.

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