Management of non-marital fertility in two South African communities.
Management of non-marital fertility in two South African communities.
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10.1080/13691058.2013.777475
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2013
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Sennott C
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Madhavan S;Harrison A;Sennott C
在这一分析中，我们利用定性数据来检查位于南非不同省份的两个农村黑人社区：夸祖鲁-纳塔尔和姆普马兰加的年轻女性非婚生育的管理。尽管这两个社区有着共同的经济和社会劣势以及进入劳动力市场的机会有限的历史，但在非婚生育管理方面仍有明显的特点。我们显示，两个社区的年轻女性都渴望有一个理想的事件顺序，将完成教育放在结婚和生孩子之前，但这并不容易实现。然而，年轻妇女及其家庭对联盟形成和生育的反应方式存在重大差异，这些往往发生在公认的联盟之外。在哈拉比萨，通过承认婚姻关系使非婚怀孕合法化的正式程序仍然存在，而在阿金库尔，更多的重点是确保对孩子的支持和父亲的承认，而不是巩固年轻妇女和她的伴侣之间的结合。我们还发现，阿金库尔的老一辈人有时将教育视为对婚姻的威胁，而这在哈拉比萨并不常见。我们的发现对经常将黑人社区视为同质整体的干预计划具有重要意义。
In this analysis, we draw on qualitative data to examine the management of non-marital fertility among young women in two rural, Black communities situated in different provinces of South Africa: KwaZulu–Natal and Mpumalanga. While the two communities share a history of economic and social disadvantage and limited access to the labour market, there are, nonetheless, distinctive features that are evident in the management of non-marital fertility. We show that young women in both communities aspire to an ideal ordering of events that places finishing education before getting married and having children but this is not easily attained. However, there are important differences in the ways young women and their families respond to union formation and childbearing that often occurs outside of a recognized union. In Hlabisa, formal processes for legitimising non-marital pregnancies through union recognition are still in place whereas, in Agincourt, more emphasis is placed on securing support and paternal recognition for the child rather than on cementing the union between the young woman and her partner. We also find that the older generation in Agincourt at times views education as a threat to marriage while this is not common in Hlabisa. Our findings have important implications for intervention programmes that often treat Black communities as homogeneous wholes.