Sandra Burman

Eleanor Preston-Whyte

Over 40 per cent of all children in South Africa are born to unmarried people. In some communities this figure reaches 70 per cent. Yet in South Africa illegitimacy is still a contentious issue, and both social and policy recognition of change lags far behind reality.Written by a team of academics and practitioners in the fields of law, anthropology, religious studies, economics, clinical psychology, psychiatry, and paediatrics, Questionable Issue provides challenging perspectives on a largely unrecognized aspect of social change. The authors recommend changesin the legal provisions governing non-marital children, and suggest policy changes directed at the provision of welfare facilities for unmarried parents and minor children.

Illegitimacy in South Africa

Questionable Issue

Pamela Reynolds

Thirty-three contributions thoroughly address the history of being a child in America. After a number of historical approaches are described, articles are grouped according to chronology (from colonial the final times); articles reflect on the past, present, and future--socialization in an electronic age. The history of childhood and growing up necessarily involves a study of family relations and the roles of men and women. This is an interdisciplinary work which addresses subjects of interest to a wide professional and lay audience. Paper ed. $15. The volume's the problem for a conflicted nation like South Africa--that what they are, a nation soon will be. The 20 essays range from a study of children in prison to children's use of language in racial neighborhoods to the lives of way Jewish, Indian and Afrikaner children grow up. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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