Rural children and residential instability in the northern province of South Africa

Waal, C. S. van der

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“…Only 21% of households consisted of a nuclear family, while 74% of households consisted of an extended family comprising kin other than parents or children. Six per cent of households consisted of couples or single individuals.The small number of nucleartype households has also been found in several anthropological studies 6,9 . The South African history of repression, relocation and dispossession resulted in a situation of fluidity, residential instability and disorganisation of households.…”

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Empowered women, social networks and the contribution of qualitative research: broadening our understanding of underlying causes for food and nutrition insecurity

Lemke

Rensburg

et al. 2003

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To investigate underlying causes for food and nutrition insecurity in black South African households and to gain understanding of the factors contributing to better nutrition security, with emphasis on household organisation, gender and intrahousehold dynamics and social networks. Design, setting and subjects: Within a larger cross-sectional survey that investigated the impact of urbanisation on the health of black South Africans, 166 people, mostly women, were interviewed on household food security. Methods used were structured face-to-face interviews, in-depth interviews, observation, interviews with key informants and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Information was collected from 1998 to 2000 in 15 rural and urban areas of the North West Province, South Africa. Results: Three-quarters of households in this sample are chronically food-insecure. Families are disrupted, due to migrant work, poverty and increasing societal violence, and half of households are female-headed. Certain categories of female-headed households and households based on partnership relationships, despite more limited resources, achieve a better or an equal economic status and better nutrition security than those households led by men, with the latter often being considered an economic liability. The reliance on and fostering of social ties and networks appear to be of central significance. Conclusion: Gender and intra-household relations, as well as social networks and income from informal sector activities, are often not uncovered by conventional statistical methods. Qualitative research can reveal the unexpected and furthermore empowers people, as their voices are heard.

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confidence: 87%

Empowered women, social networks and the contribution of qualitative research: broadening our understanding of underlying causes for food and nutrition insecurity

Lemke

Rensburg

et al. 2003

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Children can also be sent to childless relati ves, especially to their parents ' siblings, and of course to paternal grandparents from whom they receive their patrilineal identity, and with whom they significantly ' belong' . 'Fostering' of children has been widely documented (see, e.g., Schapera, 1971;Hellmann, 1956;Van der Waal , 1996;Mehlwana, 1996). The dispersal of children affe cts the emotional relationship between children and their biological parents (Laslett, 1977:37;Van der Waal , 1996) This practice make s the kinship structure of domestic groups opaque to the standard social survey, with its standard method of going no further than asking how each memb er is related to the homestead head .…”

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Understanding Black Households: The Problem

Russell

2003

Social Dynamics

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Households can be taken for granted in the West because the nuclear family system with its bilateral descent ensures a fairly standard pattern of coresidence, with predictable patterns of pooling resources. In contemporary southern Africa, the tradition ofpatrilineal descent in blackfamilies entails a much wider set of options for co-residence as relatives disperse to make a living in the new global economy. The agnatic idiom continues to give coherence to volatile. contingent black households. The paper traces the distinctive historical roots of Western and African households and argues. against the assumption that black South Africans are engaged in some sort of transition to a Western pattern.

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“…Motives for moves are, however, unlikely to be clear cut, and may result from decision-making with consideration of both adult and child factors. In addition, child care arrangements may be fluid with children shifting between homes in order to maximise access to care and resources, or to provide support to extended kin through the mechanism of child fosterage (Jones 1993;Van der Waal 1996). Nevertheless, there is a dearth of research on children's movement patterns in South Africa and in other low-and middle-income countries.…”

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“…Current South African research has shown that patterns of movement involving children can take place within urban or rural environments, or between rural and urban areas, and that they can be either permanent or temporary (Collinson et al 2006a). Children have been reported to move either together with one or more primary caregivers or independent of them ( Van der Waal 1996). Movement may be prompted primarily by the connected adult/s (who may move to access an employment opportunity, or in response to relationship formation/dissolution).…”

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Patterns of Residential Mobility Amongst Children in Greater Johannesburg–Soweto, South Africa: Observations from the Birth to Twenty Cohort

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Frequent residential movement challenges children to adapt to change, amongst others, houses and neighbourhoods, friends and schools, and this may have either or both negative and positive influences on their health and well-being. However, there is currently little knowledge of the patterns of child residential mobility within South Africa's urban environment. This paper uses address data of children in the Birth to Twenty cohort to analyse the frequencies and patterns of residential mobility observed over the first 14 years of these children's lives. Of the 3,273 children enrolled into the cohort in 1990, two thirds of the children (64%) have moved home at least once. Nonetheless, a third of the children never moved, Urban Forum (indicating some stability among the urban child population. Residential moves by children were found to be associated with both the lowest resourced and the highest resourced households.

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Rural children and residential instability in the northern province of South Africa

Cited by 30 publications

References 9 publications

Empowered women, social networks and the contribution of qualitative research: broadening our understanding of underlying causes for food and nutrition insecurity

Empowered women, social networks and the contribution of qualitative research: broadening our understanding of underlying causes for food and nutrition insecurity

Understanding Black Households: The Problem

Patterns of Residential Mobility Amongst Children in Greater Johannesburg–Soweto, South Africa: Observations from the Birth to Twenty Cohort

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