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Child Fostering Chains Among Ovambo Families in Namibia, Southern Africa.

Childcare across sub-Saharan Africa is often socially distributed among adults, with care by the biological mother being one of several options available for children. Children typically move within and outside of large extended kin networks. Based on an ethnographic study of four Ovambo families in...

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Published in:Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 155 - 177
Main Author: Brown, Jill
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2011
Subjects:
Namibia
Child care
Families
Foster home care
Children of AIDS patients
Social history
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