The Impact of legislation on childhood sexuality in South Africa

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Songca, Rushiella
Karels, MG

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2016

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en

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children's sexuality , chidl sexual development , childrens sexual behaviours

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The purpose of this submission is two-fold. Firstly, the goal of the analysis is to confront, albeit synoptically, common-held misperceptions, both legally and socially, on the subject of childhood sexuality. Secondly, the submission considers how legislation and judicial interpretation has responded to the expression of a child’s sexuality in South Africa. The legal and judicial analysis is centred on the categorization of age, and queries the wisdom of confining normal, non-deviant sexual development in terms of disparate age classifications as expressed in South African Legislation.

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R Songca 2016 " The impact of legislation on childhood sexuality in South Africa" 37 228-246

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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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1682-5853

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