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The fate of the child (Paperback)
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The fate of the child (Paperback)
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Price R392
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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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