This disproportionate burden often pushes single mothers towards financial hardship. In South Africa, child maintenance is regulated by the Maintenance Act, 1998. When a custodial parent ...
Centre for Social Development in Africa, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg Child maintenance – the duty to support a child – is more than a right. It ensures children have ...
As far as establishing paternity, in not one instance to date has a South African soldier or other SA National Defence Force (SANDF) staffer been positively and legally identified as fathering a child ...
[33] Human Rights Watch, Leave No Girl Behind in Africa, Discrimination ... on the implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence, December 6, 2016, UN Doc. CRC/G/GC/20; UNESCO ...