Table 6 Negotiating caregiver report of behavioural and family problems

N:

Is is his own mother still involved in his life?

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(0.7)

CG:

↑Noo::

N:

[She doesn’t …]

CG:

[She’s her father] is her father is raising two kids of hers those two are working now. (1) Her father is also a FAS ((Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)) baby (1) I say every father gets his packet.

N:

Mhm

CG:

They gave him she had tw::o, three children minimum, by a gu:y, two boys and a a girl and she dropped the children by the father and she left (1) she’s now she is a year gone from there now.

N:

Mhm

CG:

And here he is if she comes she just come and then he fights with her (1.5) because she pu::lls him and they’ve got that anger. And and I tell her she mustn’t pull him because he don’t like people to pull him around, and she got a habit of that ‘Kom met my saam’, ‘come with me now’, you know? (1.5) so many times and I told him, ‘you mustn’t fight with a mother’ that is still your mom (1) irrespective.

(1.5)

N:

So you said he is got sore throat?