Family policy for all South African families

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9974065
AutoresMarlize Rabe (0000-0002-0019-5368, University of South Africa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen60
Número5
Páginas1189-1200
Fecha de publicación2016-07-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020872816655866
OpenAlexW2461103543
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas19

The ‘White Paper of Families in South Africa’ is critically analysed in this article. It is shown that although family diversity is acknowledged in the aforementioned document, certain implications of the document undermine such professed diversity, not all caretakers of children are acknowledged and supported, and financially vulnerable families are not strengthened. Instead, narrow ideals of family life are at times promoted, suggesting middle-class heterosexual values. It is argued here that the realities of family life should be accepted as such and family in different forms should be supported consistently, not subtly pushed to conform to restricted interpretations of what families should be like

Diversity (politics · Extended family · Family life · Genealogy · Nuclear family · Political science · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare