Female employees have a right to four months maternity leave. This leave can start four weeks before the expected date of birth and the employee cannot be forced to go back to work for six weeks after the birth of the child.  > 

Both parents have a legal duty to support their children.  > 

If the court has ordered that a parent must pay child support, it is a criminal offence not to pay.  > 

Giving up a child for adoption is a way of ending the legal relationship between the biological parents and a child.  > 

A foster child is a child who is removed from their parents and legally placed in the care of foster parents, in terms of the Child Care Act. If you have been appointed a foster parent by a court, you can get a monthly ...  > 

If you are the person responsible for looking after a child (you are the child's primary caregiver) and the child is younger than fourteen years old, you can get a monthly payment from the government called a Child Support Grant.  > 

If you are the parent, guardian, foster parent or custodian of any child between the ages of 1 and 18 who needs full-time care because of mental or physical disability, you can get a monthly payment from the government called a Care Dependency Grant. The ...  > 

Adoption is a legal way for an adult single person or couple - being unable to give birth to a child or wishing to bring another child into the family, for example - to become the legal parents of a child. When you adopt a ...  > 

Foster care is the placement of child, who needs to be removed from the parental home, into the custody of a suitable family or person willing to be foster parents. This is done by order of the Children's Court.  > 

The Help Kids site contains information on Child Welfare services and projects in the Cape Town area, including adoption and fostering.  >