Breaking the Net : Family Structure and Street-Connected Children in Zambia

• Tác giả: Francesco Strobbe
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 720.96 Architecture
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 310469
• Chủ đề: 1. extended family; 2. human capital; 3. orphans; 4. poverty; 5. street children

Tóm tắt

Drawing on original fieldwork in the slums of Ndola in Northern Zambia we isolate those features of a child's nuclear and extended family that put him most at risk of ending up on the streets. We find that older, male children and particularly orphaned children are more likely to wind up on the street. Families with a male household head who is in poor health are more likely to originate street-connected children. In contrast, households with surviving maternal grandparents or with a male head who has many sisters are significantly less likely to originate street-connected children.