The Family Law required parents to provide for all children as long as they were minors or for a maximum of one year beyond that until secondary school graduation.

Subsidy for school children dependent on women heads of household

This also happens very often with mothers raising children (45.2 per cent) and for over 35 per cent of parents raising three or more children.

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The father is under obligation to maintain his children during the period of custody.

For example, a court may consider it a good reason if a parent has another child who would be less financially secure than the child receiving support if such amount were ordered.

Frequently, grandparents are raising their grandchildren because parents, due to alcoholism, domestic violence and general apathy, cannot raise them.

Women whose marriage is not registered with the State may petition the court to determine paternity and may request maintenance for the children of that marriage.

If the mother is indigent at the time of the mukhala ah or becomes so thereafter, the father shall be obliged to maintain the child and the mother shall be indebted to him.

Shortly after independence the issue of maintenance became a major concern as many women started to complain of the difficulty securing maintenance from the fathers of their children, and about the inefficient operation of the maintenance courts, which fall under the legislation inherited from South Africa.

Between 1991 and 1993 there were two women ministers and three out of the 15 members of the High Council of the Republic were women.

Parenthood is seen as a joint responsibility and this is reflected in legislation and by laws.

Raise children, love me.

The husband also had the final word on the upbringing of the children.

Indeed, failure to pay alimony was an indictable offence under the Penal Code, while under civil law, the assets of a father who failed to pay child support could be confiscated to enforce such payment.

4. Child raising allowance

Women in both rural and urban areas use Maintenance Courts to secure their maintenance.

The employer is required to grant a holiday at the time requested by a parent raising a child of up to 7 years old, and a parent raising a child between 7 and 10 years of age must be granted a holiday during the school holiday of a child, if the parent so wishes.

Ms. Jelavić (Croatia) said that under the Family Law, parents were required to support minor children until the end of high school, and, if necessary, for a maximum period of one additional year.

The findings of this review, which was completed in 2002, prompted the government to review the law on child maintenance.

5. Child raising leave

Staff member with a dependent spouse or a dependent child

314. Single mothers raising their children alone are entitled to preferential treatment.

In the third world the households in which the woman is the only source of support for the children amount to nearly 20 .

How does she bring up her children?

The court's decision also established an alternative arrangement for custody over the two sons in favour of the mother in case the grandparents refused to take charge of their care and upbringing.

The households evaluating their nourishment as below the average level were those maintained on unearned income other than pensions (33.6 per cent), households with unemployed members (32.9 per cent), mothers raising children (30.9 per cent) and married couples raising four or more children (26.2 per cent).

A parent is required to maintain his or her minor child and an adult child who needs assistance and is incapacitated for work.

The father should be accountable for all expenses related to the nurturing and education of the children.

As things stand, child maintenance regulations are still primarily geared towards formal divorce.

Illegitimate children can thus claim at least the standard rate of maintenance.

254. Women who have taken a child raising leave or are in receipt of child raising allowances continue to be covered by the statutory health insurance on a non contributory basis if they were subject to compulsory coverage before.

(1) The raising and upbringing of children until they come of full legal age shall be a right and obligation of their parents and shall be assisted by the State.

Parents are obliged to support their minor children, and if they refuse to do so, the money for supporting the children (maintenance) is collected from the parents by the court (art. 80 of the Family Code).

In the case of a marriage that had been dissolved by divorce, joint property would be disposed of according to the relevant law.

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You have a son to bring up.

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(iii) Motherhood and fatherhood allowances may be paid to single parents caring for children under 18 years of age.

Staff member with a dependent spouse or a dependent child

Women whose marriage is registered with the State may petition the court during the dissolution and receive part of the property and the maintenance for the children.

A study conducted by the LAC showed that women in both rural and urban areas use the maintenance courts and are concerned about more effective mechanisms for securing maintenance, and that many women find traditional approaches to maintenance under customary law inadequate.

Entitlement to all types of child allowances is based on the condition that the child has not contracted marriage or is maintained out of public funds.

252. Employees, both male and female, are entitled to child raising leave to look after their newborn child.

409. The households reporting some experience of shortage of food were those with unemployed members and without any working or pension receiving members (37.9 per cent), households maintained on unearned income other than pensions (36.6 per cent), married couples raising four or more children (23.3 per cent), and mothers raising children (19.4 per cent).