Child Fosterage in West Africa

Isiugo-Abanihe, Uche C.

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“…Given this flexibility, an Akan woman does not necessarily bear the overall cost of raising her children. As has been found elsewhere, cost-sharing in the up-bringing of children helps sustain high fertility (e.g., Isiugo-Abanihe, 1985).…”

Section: Number Of Deaths At Each Attained Paritymentioning

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Intentional replacement of dead children in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Ghana and Kenya

Gyimah

Rajulton

2004

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This paper examines whether childhood deaths elicit an explicit, conscious and intentional fertility response using the 1998 Demographic and Health Survey data for Ghana and Kenya . Using multivariate hazard models, childhood mortality experience was found to have long term fertility implications beyond the short term physiological effects. In both countries, women who have experienced childhood mortality were found to have significantly higher number of additional children than those without. The death of the first child in particular was found to be associated with the risk of a higher order birth consistent with recent findings in Cameroon. The policy implications of the findings are discussed.Key Words: sub-Saharan Africa; Ghana; Kenya; fertility, childhood mortality; replacement hypothesis; hazard models. Stephen Obeng Gyimah and Fernando Rajulton 34 RésuméCet article examine si les décès d'enfants élicitent une réaction de fécondité explicite, consciente et intentionnelle à partir des données pour le Ghana et le Kenya contenues dans le Programme d'enquête démographiques et sanitaires de 1998. Au moyen de modèles de dangers multidimensionnels, on a constaté que l'expérience d'un décès d'enfant avait des conséquences à long terme sur la fécondité allant bien au-delà des effets physiologiques à court terme. Dans les deux pays, les femmes, qui avaient perdu des enfants, avaient considérablement plus d'enfants que les femmes qui n'en avaient pas perdus. On a d'ailleurs établi que le décès d'un premier enfant résultait en un plus grand ordre de naissances, ce qui a été confirmé par les dernières conclusions au Cameroun. Les répercussions en terme de politique sont traitées dans l'article.

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Section: Number Of Deaths At Each Attained Paritymentioning

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Intentional replacement of dead children in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Ghana and Kenya

Gyimah

Rajulton

2004

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“…A network member that is educated, has a good occupation, or is in a stable marital situation might be able to provide more resources to the foster child than the biological parents can. Being sent to a different household enables a foster child to benefit from training (either formally in an apprenticeship or informally from the receiving household), upward social mobility, and access to improved kin contacts (Goody 1982;Oppong and Bleek 1982;Isiugo-Abanihe 1985). Testing this network quality hypothesis requires knowledge about all of the immediate family members in the biological parents' network and detailed information about attributes that could make their household a better environment for the foster child.…”

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Flexibility of Household Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

Akresh¹

2009

Journal of Human Resources

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a b s t r a c tUsing data I collected in Africa, this paper examines a household's decision to adjust its size through child fostering, an institution where biological parents temporarily send children to live with other families. Households experiencing negative idiosyncratic income shocks, child gender imbalances, located further from primary schools, or with more ''good'' quality network members (fewer subsistence farmers and unmarried individuals and more educated members) are significantly more likely to send a child. Results reject an overall symmetric fostering model across senders and receivers, but evidence of symmetry is found when the test is restricted to exogenous income shocks and gender imbalances.

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“…the adjustment of family size to circumstances (through infanticide or adoption). In large parts of Africa as well, "excess" children could easily be moved to families of kin as "foster children" (Isiugo-Abanihe, 1985). In many cultures, an outspoken preference for sons also limited the motivation for birth control (Mason, 2001).…”

Section: Demographic Transitionsmentioning

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How Was Life?

Baten

Blum²

2014

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Child Fosterage in West Africa

Cited by 292 publications

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Intentional replacement of dead children in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Ghana and Kenya

Intentional replacement of dead children in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Ghana and Kenya

Flexibility of Household Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

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