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| Title: | The Changing Family Structure and Legal Lag in Lesotho: Implications for the Future |
| Author: | Modo, I.V.O. |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Periodical: | African Anthropologist (ISSN 1024-0969) |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 69-84 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Lesotho Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | social change family law family Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Law, Human Rights and Violence Women's Issues Family Life Cultural Roles Marital Relations and Nuptiality Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Sex Roles Status of Women Women and Their Children law Family structure Right of property Bride price customary law social problems |
| External link: | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/aa/article/view/23104 |
| Abstract: | The migration pattern of ablebodied Sotho men in the last three decades has considerably altered the family structure in Lesotho. Men marry late. The impact of migration has been apparent in practices such as abandonment of wives, entrenched 'setsoalle' or 'nyatsi', cohabitation and increasing numbers of street children. The legal structure is not keeping pace with these changes. For example, while over 50 percent of households in Lesotho are headed or managed by women, women are considered as minors and have no right to property. Family laws, especially the customary ones, need to be rethought. Issues which need to be addressed include the question of community of property within marriage, the allocation of unmarried daughters, the status of illegitimate children and the responsibility of men for their children born in and out of wedlock. Bibliogr., notes, sum. |
