Analysing the nature and extent of child-headed households in South Africa
There is widespread concern that the numbers of children living in ’child-headed households’ are rapidly increasing as a result of AIDS-related adult mortality in much of sub-Saharan Africa. This systematic analysis of representative national surveys over the period 2000 – 2007 aims to shed light on the extent to which this is the case in South Africa, and to examine the phenomenon in more detail.