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Rethinking the meaning of family for adolescents and youth in Zimbabwe's child welfare institutions

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rethinking the meaning of family for adolescents and youth in Zimbabwe's child welfare institutionsby Getrude Dadirai Gwenzi.
Author:	Gwenzi, Getrude Dadirai.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023.
Description:	xxii, 163 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	ChildrenInstitutional careZimbabwe.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23375-3
ISBN:	9783031233753$q(electronic bk.)

Rethinking the meaning of family for adolescents and youth in Zimbabwe's child welfare institutions
Gwenzi, Getrude Dadirai.

Rethinking the meaning of family for adolescents and youth in Zimbabwe's child welfare institutions[electronic resource] /by Getrude Dadirai Gwenzi. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xxii, 163 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life,2731-6459. - Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life..

1. Introduction -- 2. A Study on Family Meanings -- 3. Theorising Family Meanings -- 4. Constructing "Family" During Child-Family Separation -- 5. Family in Southern Africa -- 6. Adolescents' and Youths' "Family Meanings" in Zimbabwe -- 7. Rethinking the Meaning of Family for Adolescents and Youths in Zimbabwe's Child Welfare Institutions.

This book examines the lives of children and young adults living in residential care systems in Zimbabwe and their unique conceptualization of family. While the importance of family for the development and wellbeing of children can't be overemphasized, the questions of what and who counts as family to orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) are under-researched. Gwenzi brings a social constructionist approach to study OVCs in institutional care as well as living with their families in Zimbabwe, finding that they do not have a single definition of family and that they use diverse characteristics to describe what family means to them. With the data suggesting a need for belonging, continuity of relationships, protection, and trust, this study makes recommendations for policy and practice with youth in alternative care in sub-Saharan Africa.

ISBN: 9783031233753$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-23375-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

947585
Children
--Institutional care--Zimbabwe.

LC Class. No.: HV1351 / .G94 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 362.732096891

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