Author: Burman, Sandra. & Preston-Whyte, Eleanor. (Eds).
Title: Questionable Issue. Illegitimacy in South Africa.
Description: Oxford University Press. Cape Town 1992. 296pp softcover. 0.35kg. Owners signature ffep else G-VG condition. ISBN: 9780195706604 Over 40% of all children in South Africa are born to unmarried people, in some communities this rises to 70%. Examines why this is so, attitudes to non-marital births, problems of single-parent families, attitudes of the major religious communities to births outside of religiously sanctioned unions, and the effects of migrancy and apartheid on the possibilities of marriages for black South Africans and the effects on their children. Essays from a wide range of South African professionals and academics.

Keywords: south southern africa african social anthropology illegitimacy