yet mothers in twoparent families who had more time to spend with their daughters did not always follow up on their sexual activities whereas fathers did the implication is of underlying material needs and of paternal reluctance to recognise their role in the decisions of adolescents these cash transfers are often deployed to ensure childrens schooling improve health care and reallocate productive resources within households adato bassett mokomane it has been found for example that girls in households receiving noncontributory social pensions are more likely to attend school succeed academically and have better health and nutrition indicators than children in similar households that do not receive the pension issa