TY  - JOUR
T1  - Paternal Involvement in the Financial Welfare of Children Receiving Child Support Grant in South Africa
AU - Tanga, Pius Tangwe AU - Gutura, Priscilla 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 10
IS  - 5
SP  - 190
EP  - 197
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2013.190.197
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2013.190.197
KW  - Child support grant
KW  -children
KW  -child poverty
KW  -fathers
KW  -paternal commitment
KW  -welfare
AB  - This study explores the views of female beneficiaries on the 
  commitment of biological fathers in the welfare of their children who are in 
  receipt of the Child Support Grant (CSG). The study was qualitative in nature 
  and interview guides were utilised in collecting data from twenty participants. 
  The major finding of the study points to the realisation that the CSG has become 
  a substitute of fathers’ commitments 
  to the welfare of their children hence there are few fathers who are present 
  in the lives of their children. In the study, most of the fathers’ 
  where abouts were unknown and so was their contribution. The mothers perceived 
  that men as fathers assumed that the CSG represented them hence they did not 
  need to be active in their children’s 
  lives. Some women who were single parents also did not want any involvements 
  from these men due to the fact that they had deserted them. Nevertheless, the 
  CSG emerged as a reliable source of income for these participants as the piece 
  jobs the women engaged in were not sustainable. The study however recommends 
  that fathers be liable to court sanctioned maintenance.
ER  -