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dc.contributor.authorSloth-Nielsen, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-01T07:13:48Z
dc.date.available2013-11-01T07:13:48Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifier.citationSloth-Nielsen, J. (2003). Too little? Too late? The implications of the Grootboom case for state responses to child-headed households. Law, Democracy & Development, 7(1): 113-136en_US
dc.identifier.issn10281055
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/789
dc.description.abstractThe article begins with an overview of the socio-economic context surrounding child-headed households and then discusses the constitutional obligations that rest on the state vis-a-vis children growing up in these settings. Considering the scope of the state's obligation where the parents of children below the age of 18 are deceased or unable to render parental care as well as the emerging constitutional recognition of the right to family life, it is concluded that the state must ensure that children living in child-headed households are integrated into some form of family environment. Against this background the state's articulated policy on the situation of child-headed households is examined and its reasonableness is assessed. Noting various shortcoming in the policy, it is suggested that failure of the government's HIV/AlDS programmes to prioritise emergency relief would constitute a contravention of the Grootboom principles. The constitutional rights of children living in child-headed households are thus not adequately protected by the existing policy framework.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights© 2003 Sloth-Nielsen; licensee University of the Western Cape. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.subjectGrootboomen_US
dc.subjectHIV/AIDSen_US
dc.subjectChild-headed householdsen_US
dc.titleToo little? Too late? The implications of the Grootboom case for state responses to child-headed householdsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved listen_US


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