Young people's experiences of informal kinship care in Luwero, Uganda.

ABSTRACT: There is strong evidence that outside parental care, informal kinship care is the most practiced, sustainable and affordable form of childcare in SSA (sub-Saharan Africa). As a longstanding cultural tradition, informal kinship care embraces childcare as the responsibility of all extended family members, and often the wider community. However, over the past decades, informal kinship care has become gradually strained by political, economic and social conditions, such as: legacies of colonialism, increasing levels of poverty and inequality, instability, or infectious diseases. Drawing on qualitative biographical data from the Contexts of Violence in Adolescence Cohort Study (CoVAC) (2018-2022), we examine and showcase how practices of informal kinship care are perceived and experienced by yo

SUBMITTER: Datzberger S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11750426 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature