Family policy for all South African families

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9974065
AutoresMarlize Rabe (0000-0002-0019-5368, University of South Africa, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume60
Fascículo5
Páginas1189-1200
Data de publicação2016-07-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020872816655866
OpenAlexW2461103543
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências 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