Parenting in a Rainbow Nation: A South African Perspective on Parenting

Roman, Nicolette V.; Benjamin, Fatiema

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15359-4_2

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“…Firstly, there are time constraints on work-home commitments, and another issue is being economically disadvantaged. In addition, single-parenting often goes hand in hand with poverty, due to unemployment or low paying employment, inadequate social support, and/or lack of spousal financial support (Statistics South Africa, 2007 as cited in Roman, 2014). These challenges produce stressors that compromise the available time and energy single parents have left to dedicate to some elements of parenting, such as spending quality time with their children (protective factor), and the monitoring of children's whereabouts and peer associations.…”

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Exploring childhood experiences and family contexts as risk factors for drug use in the lives of young drug users in the Western Cape, South Africa

Rich

Londt

Holtman

2023

Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies

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The use of drugs amongst adolescents and youth has become a global phenomenon and South Africa is no exception. This paper aims to explore the familial contexts and childhood experiences leading up to the drug-taking pathways of young drug users. A qualitative approach was utilized to gather demographic from a purposive sample of 41 young (14-19 years) drug users, at five drug treatment centres in the Western Cape of South Africa. Additionally, participants could agree to participate in an in-depth interview or to provide a written life history account. A thematic data analysis was applied, and the results uncovered a range of family-related risk factors such as family structure (single motherhood and absent fatherhood), and other negative family functioning and practices such as troubled parent-child relationships, poor family communication/interactions, parental/family substance abuse, and conflict-ridden, stressful and often violent and abusive family situations. The findings suggest that prevention initiatives should focus on strengthening family functioning by reducing high conflict, stress, violent and abusive family situations, as well as aim to enhance the caregiver-child relationship. Prevention strategies should encourage live-in and non-live-in fathers to be actively involved in the lives of their children and should aim to reduce parental/caregiver substance abuse.

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