NEET as an Outcome for Care Leavers in South Africa: The Case of Girls and Boys Town

Dickens, Lisa; Marx, Peter W.

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“…Several papers (Dickens & Marx, 2020; Dziro, 2020; Moodley et al, 2020; Sekibo, 2020; Takele & Kotecho, 2020) provide evidence that irrespective of the type of care, youth transitioning into emerging adulthood face multiple challenges. While some country-specific challenges exist, most care-leavers have poor outcomes in three key areas of their lives: employment, accommodation, and social integration.…”

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“…While some country-specific challenges exist, most care-leavers have poor outcomes in three key areas of their lives: employment, accommodation, and social integration. In South Africa, for example, Dickens and Marx (2020) found that youth who left care were often not in employment, education, or training (NEET). This situation resulted in financial difficulties for young people, affecting their ability to access self-supporting accommodation or continue their education.…”

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“…Care-leavers in Ethiopia reconnected with their families to satisfy their need for an identity and sense of belonging, even though it could threaten the positive progress made in certain areas of their lives such as education (Takele & Kotecho, 2020). Dickens and Marx (2020) report that, though many of the care-leavers in their study were NEET, they were mostly living in formal dwelling spaces rather than informal dwellings, because many lived with their families 2 years after leaving care. Bukuluki, Kamya, Kasirye, and Nabulya (2020) and Frimpong-Manso (2020) also provide evidence of the importance of social support from family and community networks to successful care-leaving.…”

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“…qualitative data (Bond, 2020;Frimpong-Manso, 2020;Gwenzi, 2020;Moodley, Raniga, & Sewpaul, 2020;Takele & Kotecho, 2020), quantitative data (Dickens & Marx, 2020), and mixed methods data (Bukuluki, Kamya, Kasirye, & Nabulya, 2020;Dziro, 2020). Most of the evidence comes from residential care, but there is also a focus on nonformal kinship care, an area on which very little is written, despite being the major form of alternative care for OVC on the continent.…”

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Leaving Care in Africa

Breda

Frimpong‐Manso

2020

Emerging Adulthood

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Many children in sub-Saharan Africa find themselves without adequate parental care, resulting from growing levels of poverty, disease (e.g., Aids and Ebola), harmful cultural norms, conflict, and trafficking, among others. In Africa, most orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) are taken care by the relatives and other community members, but this traditional system is under stress, and many OVC end up on their own on the streets or in child-headed households (Leinaweaver, 2014). Others enter the formal alternative care system (also known as foster or out-of-home care) provided through residential care facilities known by different names, such as orphanages, child and youth care centers, or children's homes. Recent estimates suggest that about 2.7 million children are in formal care globally, of which about 11% live in sub-Saharan Africa (Petrowski, Cappa, & Gross, 2017). However, many more children are unaccounted for in unregistered facilities run by nongovernmental organizations dotted across the continent (Milligan, Withington, Connelly, & Gale, 2016). Because reunification services are absent, there is a limited improvement in the conditions of their families, resulting in many children being in long-term care. However, youth in alternative care must leave at some point, usually at 18 years, to make a life on their own. Their transition to adulthood is atypical to the normative trend. Young people in the wider population are staying longer with their parents to deal with the demands of emerging adulthood, the developmental stage between the ages of 18 and 26 years. Despite care-leavers becoming a growing vulnerable population in Africa, they are neglected in policy, practice, and research agendas (Pinkerton, 2011). Evidence from Africa is conspicuously missing in the international literature that is dominated by countries of the Global North, such as the UK and the United States (Mann

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Leaving Care in Africa

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Frimpong‐Manso

2020

Emerging Adulthood

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“…Most studies on this topic (e.g., Fowler, Toro, & Miles, 2011; Jones, 2011), including the articles in this issue (e.g., Bond [2020]; Dickens & Marx [2020]), use “emerging adulthood” to delimit an age-group. This proves helpful in extending the period of youth found in traditional life course stages such as Erikson’s life stages (Erikson & Erikson, 1998).…”

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Raising African Voices in the Global Dialogue on Care-Leaving and Emerging Adulthood

Breda

Pinkerton

2019

Emerging Adulthood

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Globalization of knowledge and scholarship raises the challenges of dialogue between Global North and South. Northern knowledge and voice remain privileged, while writing from the South often goes unread. This is true also in emerging adulthood and care-leaving scholarship. The special issue of Emerging Adulthood titled “Care-Leaving in Africa” is the first collection of essays on care-leaving by African scholars. It presents both care-leaving and emerging adulthood scholars from the Global North a unique opportunity to consider the implications of a rising African voice for global dialogue. This article, coauthored by scholars from North and South, argues in favor of North–South dialogue but highlights several challenges inherent in this, including the indigenizing and thus marginalizing of African experience and scholarship and divergent constructions of key social concepts. The authors argue the need for mutually respectful discourse between North and South and present specific recommendations for fostering such global dialogue.

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Leaving the parental home in post‐apartheid South Africa

Thornton

2023

Population Space and Place

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The process by which young people leave home in South Africa is central for understanding the lives of the country's young adult population, as well as, their role in the structural household change that has occurred over the post‐apartheid period. However, hardly any quantitative work has been conducted on this process and no work exists on trends. This study provides nationally representative trends of home‐leaving for young adults in South Africa for the first time using a stacked series of annual cross‐sections between 1995 and 2011. Different home‐leaving rates by race converged in the late 90s and steadied in the 2000s. Most South Africans only left home by age 25—but whether this can be interpreted as ‘delayed’ or not is complicated by diverse family patterns and the presence of stretched households. Home‐leavers are especially dependent on labour market income in the absence of social grants targeted at the large unemployed young adult population. Since young women face higher unemployment rates than young men, women were notably more reliant than men on marriage as a pathway out of the parental home. Over time, young male home‐leavers are living alone at higher rates, meaning they have contributed to general household proliferation.

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NEET as an Outcome for Care Leavers in South Africa: The Case of Girls and Boys Town

Cited by 25 publications

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Leaving Care in Africa

Leaving Care in Africa

Raising African Voices in the Global Dialogue on Care-Leaving and Emerging Adulthood

Leaving the parental home in post‐apartheid South Africa

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