By Sharlene Swartz
Providing a clean and in-depth portrait of impoverished younger South African males who turned fathers whereas young children, this examination allows their articulate and impassioned voices to be heard amidst the outcry opposed to the absence of fathers. supplying insights into younger fathers’ own, emotional, monetary, and cultural struggles as they arrive to phrases with fatherhood, this learn highlights their robust experience of accountability, depicting poignant bills of emotional engagement with their young children and the ladies of their lives and examining the motivating energy in their personal absent fathers on their parenting intentions. bearing on their hope for intercourse and courting schooling from male kin and their transparent reputation of the assistance they wish, this qualitative examine attracts from various interviews within the casual settlements and townships round Cape city and Durban, delivering methodological concepts and showcasing how social networks provide nice power for either examine and intervention.
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They stand in a line, 16-, 17-year-olds and pregnant. It’s R300 a child…Now most of the girls misuse the money. Misuse their bodies to have children – to get money – money for luxuries. The impact of the event on young men’s lives During final interviews, the 27 young fathers were asked to reflect on the ways in which the arrival of their child had changed their lives. All but three had much to say, mainly surrounding their use of money and alcohol, social activities as well as some more emotional issues such as damage to their reputation and how it forced them to be ‘grown up’.
Onathi explains both reasons: Onathi: Guys run away because maybe they know the girlfriend is like seeing many people, so there’s the doubting…so that’s why the guys say, ‘No man, that’s not my baby’. That’s why guys – some guys deny. Because they know that she isn’t – she’s not sleeping with him alone. She’s sleeping with other guys. So why should she look at him as the father… Some guys run away when the baby’s born [because] he like [thinks], ‘No man, I don’t have money, so I’m worse for my baby’, so they run away.
Those who had conducted social network interviews were asked to tell of their experience in doing so and many others asked if they could also do it now that the school holidays loomed. The workshop and the series of interviews (individual, interactive and with social networks) certainly contained elements of a potential future intervention with so-called invisible young fathers. Limitations and challenges of the study The study began in June 2008 and was completed by the end of the same year. Preparation work took two months, including satisfying the strict criteria of the Research Ethics Committee of the HSRC and recruiting participants.