DISCUSSION OF RESULTS
4.1 TABULATED OVERVIEW OF THE SAMPLE
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Respondent 1:
This respondent is 39 years old. She has been married for ten years. Respondent 1 and her husband have one child who is five years old. He is in Grade R at a private school in the Hillcrest area of KwaZulu Natal. Respondent 1 works as a grade 5 teacher at a government school. Throughout the interview, she presented as relaxed and spoke freely. Respondent 1’s husband was unable to attend the interview - he was attending meetings in Johannesburg the week of the interview. It was respondent 1’s preference to continue without him rather than re-scheduling.
Respondent 2:
Respondent 2 is a 40 year old female. She has been married for nine years and has two girls, one age 7, the other age 4 and she is expecting her third child in December this year. Her seven year old daughter is currently in Grade two at a government school in the Kloof area of KwaZulu Natal. Respondent 2’s youngest daughter attends a nursery school close to home. Respondent 2 is a stay at home mom, her husband is an accountant and he did not wish to participate in the interview. Respondent 2 presents as a lively, outgoing woman.
Respondent 3:
Respondent 3 is a 37 year old female. She is married (second marriage) with one child (son) from her first marriage and three children from her second marriage. This respondent works half day as an administrator in Kloof. The children in the home range from age 2 to age 10 - life with four children is described as
‘very chaotic’. Her oldest child is currently in Grade 3 at a government school in the Hillcrest area of KwaZulu Natal. Her second child, a girl, is in Grade 1, her third child, another girl, in pre-school and her youngest, a boy, stays at home with their domestic worker. This respondent’s current husband works in Logistics. As he has a very stressful and demanding job, he was unable to commit to participating in the interview.
Page 58 of 150 Respondent 4:
Both husband and wife are in their 40’s. They have been married for 13 years. They have three children:
one in Grade 7, another in Grade 4 and their youngest in Grade 2. Their children attend a government school in the Hillcrest area of KwaZulu Natal. Both mom and dad work – mom as a car sales person and dad as an auto electrician. Their 7 year old daughter has struggled at school for the past three years. Dad has always been very reluctant to try medication for his daughter’s severe inattention.
Respondent 5:
Respondent 5 is 29 years old. She has two children, a daughter in Grade 3 and a son in Grade 1. Both children attend the same government school in Westville, KwaZulu Natal. This respondent is recently divorced although she has been separated from her husband for 18 months. Earlier this year she was called in to see her son’s teacher with regard to behavioural issues.
Respondent 6:
This respondent is a 42 year old single dad who runs his own business from home.. His wife passed away a year ago. He has two children, a son in Grade 7, age 13 and a daughter in Grade 5, age 11. Both children attend the same government school in the Westville area of Kwa Zulu Natal. This respondent’s daughter has been taking psycho-stimulants for the past two years.
Respondent 7:
This mother and father (ages 37 and 40 respectively) have three children ages 11, 7 and 4. Dad is a hairdresser in the Pinetown area of Kwa Zulu Natal and mom stays at home, she has a small internet business. This couple has been married for 14 years. Their 11 years old is in grade 6 at a government school in Westville, KwaZulu Natal. Their 7 year old is in grade 1 at the same school and their 4 year old goes to the local pre-school. Both parents are very busy with their work and their children.
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Respondent 8 is 41, she and her husband have been married for 9 years. This respondent has recently become a stay at home mom (6 months ago). Prior to this she worked as an administrator at a law firm.
She resigned to be more available for the children. Respondent 8 has two children, two girls. One age 8 and the other age 4. The family live in New Germany in KwaZulu Natal. Their 8 year old attends a government school in their area. He is in grade 2. Their 4 year old goes three mornings a week to the nursery school down the road. In the run up to starting medication, their 8 year old was a highly disruptive influence in the home. The respondent’s husband preferred not to participate in the interview.
Respondent 9:
Respondent 9 is 35 years old. She is has been married for 6 years. She and her husband married when their son was 3 years old. The couple has two children, a 9 year old son and a 2 year old girl. Their 2 year old stays at home with the domestic worker, their son is in grade 3 at a local government school in Pinetown, KwaZulu Natal. This respondent is a personal assistant and her husband is a warehouse manager who was attending a training workshop at the time of the interview. He was therefore unable to be present.
Respondent 10:
Respondent 10 is 35 years old. She has two children, one girl age 8 and a boy age 3. This respondent has been married for 13 years. She works from home offering book keeping services and her husband is a plumber. They live in the Hillcrest area of KwaZulu Natal. Their daughter goes to the local primary school. She is in grade 3 and their son attends a pre-primary school just down the road from their house.
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