- Title
- Focus on 'the family'?: how South African family policy could fail us
- Creator
- Morison, Tracy, Lynch, Ingrid, Macleod, Catriona I
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/446244
- Identifier
- vital:74484
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://hsrc.ac.za/uploads/pageContent/7505/HSRC%20POLICY%20BRIEF%2011%20-%20MORISON%20Family%20policy_PRESS%20(2).pdf"
- Description
- In the past decade South African policymakers have increasingly focused on families as sites of state intervention. To date, several family policies have been developed to support societal well-being and cohesion. The most recent policy document is the White Paper on Families in South Africa (DSD 2012), which aims to facilitate the mainstreaming of a family perspective into all government policy-making. Family policies are intended to provide support, enhance family members’ wellbeing, strengthen family relationships, and help families address social challenges, such as economic instability. Their ultimate aim is to ensure a safe and socially cohesive society (Robila 2014). A core concern, therefore, is with promoting ‘stable, healthy families’. This concern is valid in South Africa since many families experienced a profound lack of stability under apartheid and today instability is brought about by various socio-economic changes, especially the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (5 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
- Language
- English
- Relation
- HSRC, Morison, T., Lynch, I. and Macleod, C., 2016. Focus on 'the family'?: how South African family policy could fail us, HSRC 2016 Policy Brief
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Statement (http://repository.hsrc.ac.za/)
- Rights
- Open Access
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