Sökning: "Child-headed household"
Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade orden Child-headed household.
1. Beyond vulnerabilities: Exploring the coping mechanisms of children as family heads in child-headed households in Kampala district Uganda.
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbeteSammanfattning : Uganda is a signatory of both local and international child protection protocols and has further shown its great commitment to child welfare through various agencies put up to implement child welfare-related issues. Yet with all this, children in Uganda continue to be abused and their rights violated. LÄS MER
2. Life in Child/Adolescent Headed Households : Aqualitative study on everyday life experience of children living in child/adolescent headed households in Western Kenya region
Master-uppsats, Sociologiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the everyday life experience of children living in household headed by a child or an adolescent after the loss of both parents in the rural communities in Western Kenya Region. Child/Adolescent headed household is a rapidly growing form of family in Sub-Saharan Africa mainly due to increased deaths rates of parents caused by HIV/AIDS, civil wars and the weakened state of traditional family safety nets in taking up care and raising responsibilities of orphaned children. LÄS MER
3. Conditions of life for child-headed households : an explorative interview study from South Africa
Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för socialt arbete - SocialhögskolanSammanfattning : The objective of the study was to explore the conditions of every day life of child-headed households in South Africa. Following research questions were developed: • How do South African children who are the head of the household perceive his or her life situation and the role as the household-head? • How are the relations with siblings and other relatives? • What kind of support do they need? In order to fulfil the objective an interview study with the design as a case study was con-ducted. LÄS MER