The South African constitution gives children special protection. It puts the responsibility on the government to provide social assistance to children whose parents or primary caregivers are unable to support them financially.One of the ways they do this is through the provision of a Child Support Grant. The Child Support Grant is monthly income support to adults in need, who care for children who are under the age of 17. Parents and primary caregivers qualify for the Child Support Grant if their child is born on or after 31 December 1993.
Sadly, not all of these parents applied for financial assistance to the government to take care of their children but to take care of their financial problems. They don’t use it properly. This happens mostly when a parent is an alcoholic. You will find that the child support grand pays alcohol debts. Children are not taken care of by their parents when its pay day. I have seen this many times in my neighborhood. A single parent mother is an alcoholic and she does not care of his children. When it is the day to receive grant it becomes a worst day to his children. She will come home drunk and beat his children.
Children support grant to help children not their parents.
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