Supporting Children, Sustaining Tomorrow: Securing A Future for Every Child
Have you ever wondered about the environmental and social consequences of the failure or inadequate payment of child maintenance?
Join us in combining Child Maintenance and Environmental Rights, where we unpack how child maintenance impacts the physical, social and economic environment that children grow up in.
Follow this interesting discussion online on 1 November 2023 at 12:45 by following this link:
Youtube live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caHKrDD4EFg
A copy of the slides could be downloaded here: https://www.lunchandlearn.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Child-Maintenance-and-Environmental-Rights.pdf
Topics discussed:
1. Child maintenance and the duty of support in terms of the Common law, Maintenance Act and Children’s Act
2. Parental responsibilities and the Constitution: Parent’s duty to secure their child’s rights
3. The notion of ‘environment’ in terms of the National Environmental Management Act
4. Child maintenance as an environmental issue
5. Constitutional Environmental Rights: Section 24 of the Constitution and a detailing of rights contained in the provision
5.1. Immediate needs and analysis of the impact of failure or inadequacy of maintenance on a child’s health and well-being
5.2. Intergenerational equity, social and economic development of society
6. The inter-relatedness of rights and legislation in an environmental context relating to children
7. Failure of maintenance and neglect in terms of the Children’s Act and Maintenance Act
8. Recognized constitutional and other rights violated by failure or inadequacy of child maintenance and neglect
9. The impact of households with inadequate maintenance on the environment itself
10. The impact of traditional court proceedings on the environment
11. The nuance of poverty: child maintenance and the environment
12. Grassroots organization to mobilize generational and environmental issues
Presented by Caro Opperman, LLB graduate with a passion for family- and environmental law.
