Child Support Grants and Teenage Pregnancy: A Study of Dependency in North West Province, South Africa

In South Africa, increased teenage pregnancy rates especially among teenagers is considered to be one of the social problems because it yields social and economic challenges. Due to insufficient material and social support, poor primary caregivers are believed to be putting themselves and the beneficiaries of child support grant on a predicament of lifetime poverty. This paper is based on the research study that was conducted in 2021. The conducted study examined the dependency on child support