Child Welfare Deprivation in Rural Nigeria: A Counting Approach

Popoola, Olufemi Adebola; Adeoti, Adetola I.

doi:10.1155/2016/6805485

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“…With availability of potable water, the respondents are not likely to be predisposed to water-borne illnesses. This view is in tandem with the findings of Popoola and Adeoti (2016) who reported that access to adequate water supply and adequate sanitation services have a direct influence on children's health, education, wellbeing, and social development.…”

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Access to nutrition information: a key to improving nutrition status among under-five children in farming households of Oyo State, Nigeria

Fadairo¹,

Oyebode

Amusat³

2020

Agricultura Tropica Et Subtropica

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Attaining adequate child nutrition requires prompt access to relevant nutrition information. Present information reveals that the nutrition status of children younger than five years is threatened. In this study we sought to assess under-five nutritional status among farming households in Oyo State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to sample a total of 146 mothers as respondents. Data were collected using interview schedule and were analysed using percentage, mean, Chi-square and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). Most respondents were married (89.9%), currently working (93.2%) and had an average age, household size and monthly income of x¯ = 34.61, x¯ = 6 and ₦11,530, respectively. The respondents were mostly aware that cowpea is a major source of protein (x¯ = 0.99) and appropriate immunization of children is essential in aiding nutrition (x¯ = 0.99). They mostly sourced information on child nutrition from radio (x¯ = 0.87) and family and friends (x¯ = 0.87). Child nutritional status was high (59.6%). A significant relationship exists between educational attainment (χ2 = 10.781, P = 0.029), occupational status of the respondents (χ2 = 8.553, P = 0.014), awareness of adequate nutrition (r = 0.166, P = 0.044), source of information (r = 0.137, P = 0.010) and the child nutrition status. Improvements in nutrition campaign using available medical outlets and radio are advocated.

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Access to nutrition information: a key to improving nutrition status among under-five children in farming households of Oyo State, Nigeria

Fadairo¹,

Oyebode

Amusat³

2020

Agricultura Tropica Et Subtropica

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“…We find that children in the rural areas of Yé were more likely to suffer from multidimensional poverty compared to the urban children in Dédougou. Supportive findings from literature highlight this assertion of uneven geographical inequality in terms of distribution of economic resources [57,58]. Living in rural areas for example, with low job opportunities and high concentration of poor individuals increases the tendency of a child growing up poor.…”

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Decomposing multidimensional child poverty and its drivers in the Mouhoun region of Burkina Faso, West Africa

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Background: The global poverty profile shows that Africa and Asia bear the highest burden of multidimensional child poverty. Child survival and development therefore depend on socioeconomic and environmental factors that surround a child.The aim of this paper is to measure multidimensional child poverty and underpin what drives it among children aged 5 to 18 years in a resource poor region of Burkina Faso. Methods: Using primary data collected from a cross sectional study of 722 households in the Mouhoun region of Burkina Faso, the Alkire-Foster methodology was applied to estimate and decompose child poverty among children aged 5-18 years. Seven broad dimensions guided by the child poverty literature, data availability and the country's SDGs were used. A binary logistic regression model was applied to identify drivers of multidimensional child poverty in the region. Results: The highest prevalence of deprivations were recorded in water and sanitation (91%), information and leisure (89%) followed by education (83%). Interestingly, at k = 3 (the sum of weighted indicators that a child must be deprived to be considered multidimensionally poor), about 97% of children are deprived in at least three of the seven dimensions. At k = 4 to k = 6, between 88.7 and 30.9% of children were equally classified as suffering from multidimensional poverty. The odds of multidimensional poverty were reduced in children who belonged to households with a formally educated mother (OR = 0.49) or stable sources of income (OR = 0.31, OR = 0.33). The results equally revealed that being an adolescent (OR = 0.67), residing in the urban area of Boromo (OR = 0.13) and rural area of Safané (OR = 0.61) reduced the odds of child poverty. On the other hand, child poverty was highest among children from the rural area of Yé (OR = 2.74), polygamous households (OR = 1.47, OR = 5.57 and OR = 1.96), households with an adult head suffering from a longstanding illness (OR = 1.61), households with debts (OR = 1.01) and households with above five number of children/woman (OR = 1.49). Conclusion: Child poverty is best determined by using a multidimensional approach that involves an interplay of indicators and dimensions, bearing in mind its causation.

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“…UNICEF Nigeria is tackling the problems head-on with child survival programs such as neonatal care, appropriate nutrition, clean water and sanitation, and necessary healthcare to advocate for and facilitate child development programs, i.e., child education, child protection, and child rights. In evidencebased practice, UNICEF and several other econometric studies (for example, Okpukpara, et al [65], Ojelabi and Oyewole [66], and Popoola and Adeoti [67]) have advocated for the holistic implementation of childcare programs. In advanced countries, these programs are realized through social work with families and children, school social work, and social work services in national social security organizations, particularly for physically and socially disadvantaged children.…”

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Options for Africa’s Child Welfare Systems from Nigeria’s Unsustainable Multicultural Models

Akintayo

2021

Sustainability

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The sustainability of Africa’s existing child welfare systems remains uncertain, potentially owing to the maltreatment of children amid the competing worldviews of the continent’s indigenous and non-indigenous practices and international childcare models. This article focuses on Nigeria’s unsustainable multicultural child welfare system in order to highlight the inherent challenges of child welfare systems in Africa and proffer remedies. Seven discernible trends derived from available indigenous sources of information and scholarly literature on Nigeria are used as mind maps to describe and discuss Nigeria’s multicultural characteristics and childcare practices. From the discussion, the country’s child welfare challenges manifest in the following forms: ethnocultural, or more specifically, ethnoreligious diversity; the infiltration of Nigeria by non-native worldviews; colonial legacies; vacillating post-colonial social policies; conceptual ambiguities in non-indigenous welfare terminologies; and persistent unnecessary professional rivalries, which are also present in other African countries. As remedies, three transformative response options for the sustainability of the Nigerian child welfare system and those of other African countries are recommended: embracing cultural relativity regarding child maltreatment, leveraging the transformative and expanded mandates of the social work profession for the development of effective and sustainable child welfare systems, and using research and systems thinking as a driver for transforming professional rivalries into multidisciplinary approaches.

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Child Welfare Deprivation in Rural Nigeria: A Counting Approach

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Access to nutrition information: a key to improving nutrition status among under-five children in farming households of Oyo State, Nigeria

Access to nutrition information: a key to improving nutrition status among under-five children in farming households of Oyo State, Nigeria

Decomposing multidimensional child poverty and its drivers in the Mouhoun region of Burkina Faso, West Africa

Options for Africa’s Child Welfare Systems from Nigeria’s Unsustainable Multicultural Models

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