FATE OF THE CHILD - Softcover
Children's rights are now enshrined in the South African constitution, and lip service is regularly paid to them, but how effectively are they implemented? From research undertaken by the Centre for Socio-Legal Research over the last twenty years, the question has increasingly arisen of how much use such rights are on paper if the systems charged with ensuring their implementation are inadequate for the task. Possibly even more important, it has become evident that it is not enough to make 'the best interests of the child' the touch-stone for legal and welfare decisions on children, if the individuals charged with those decisions have little training -- or ready access to expertise -- in child development or the realities of a fast-changing country of many cultures. Decisions that radically affect children's futures -- whether custody decisions on divorce, fostering, children's home, adoption placements, or juvenile court decisions -- have life-long consequences. But there is also little hard evidence of what is influencing such decisions in practice, nor how decision-making for South African children can be improved. This book is the result of an attempt to remedy some of these gaps. It presents the evidence from an interdisciplinary collaborative project set up to research how legal decisions on children are being made in the new South Africa, and how children's rights are faring in practice in a variety of relevant settings.
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Decisions that radically affect children's futures - whether custody decisions on divorce, adoption placements, or juvenile court decisions - have life-long consequences. This book presents the evidence from an interdisciplinary collaborative project set up to research how legal decisions on children are being made in South Africa.
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Sandra Burman is director of the Centre for Socio-legal Research and Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Cape Town. Carmel Matthias lectures in the School of Social Work, University of KwaZulu-Natal Julia Sloth-Nielsen is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape. Noel Zaal is Professor of Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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- PublisherJUTA ACADEMIC
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0702160741
- ISBN 13 9780702160745
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages1
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The Fate of the Child : Legal Decisions on Children in the New South Africa
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