[PDF] Early Childbearing School Attainment and Cognitive Skills

What is the situation of children in South Africa?

• STATISTICS SOUTH AFRICA 18 Education Series Volume IV: Early Childhood Development in South Africa, 2016/Statistics South Africa Report 92-01-04 According to the above graph, most children aged 0–6 lived in overcrowded conditions of more than two people per bedroom or with no bedrooms at all.

When does a child lack criminal capacity in South Africa?

• In South African law, only children below the age of seven years are irrebuttably presumed to lack criminal capacity. Th is represents one of the lowest ages of criminal capacity in the world.

What are the challenges of being an adolescent in South Africa?

• Being an adolescent in Soweto, South Africa poses many challenges: we found a high prevalence of PTEs along with associations highlighting risk for HIV acquisition, particularly for adolescent women.

Which type of capital affects a child's education?

• The results show that all three types of capital have significant effects on individual education but a family’s cultural capital has the strongest effect. Furthermore, the father’s background influences a child’s education more than the mother’s for all three types of capital.