Children caring for parents with HIV and AIDSGlobal issues and policy responses

Evans, Ruth; Becker, Saul

doi:10.1332/policypress/9781847420220.001.0001

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“…Due to low literacy levels among the study population and suspicion over signing documents, verbal consent was preferable to written consent so as to reduce potential embarrassment and underscore the participants' agency. Participants were offered the option of verbal consent in which the researchers followed a set script (Evans and Becker 2009;GSS, GHS, and ICF Macro 2009;Day 2014). Among participants under 18 years of age, the data collectors inquired whether the participants migrated to Accra with a parent or guardian or if they were 'emancipated minors' who migrated to Accra alone.…”

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Collecting data from migrants in Ghana: Lessons learned using respondent-driven sampling

Lattof¹

2018

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Collecting data from migrants in Ghana: Lessons learned using respondent-driven sampling

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2018

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“…Young carers have been found to experience problems at school. They struggle to finish homework and obtain qualifications Bibby and Becker 2000;Underdown 2002;Evans and Becker 2009). They are more likely to suffer from health problems (Coombes 1997;Becker, Dearden et al 1998;Doran, Drever et al 2003), emotional difficulties, and isolation, as well as having fewer opportunities to develop friendships (Aldridge and Becker 1993;Dearden and Becker 1998), as well as poor psychosocial health (Cree 2003;Pakenham, Bursnall et al 2006).…”

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“…In Africa, children caring for sick parents share many of the same responsibilities and struggles as young carers in the global North (Becker 2007;Evans and Becker 2009). Children in countries as different as Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Kenya and Tanzania have been observed to take active caregiving roles in households affected by HIV, caring for family or community members who are unable to care for themselves, either because of illness, disability or old/young age (Robson, Ansell et al 2006;Evans and Becker 2009;.…”

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“…Children in countries as different as Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Kenya and Tanzania have been observed to take active caregiving roles in households affected by HIV, caring for family or community members who are unable to care for themselves, either because of illness, disability or old/young age (Robson, Ansell et al 2006;Evans and Becker 2009;. Their caregiving responsibilities typically include intimate and personal care (bathing, feeding, administering drugs, emotional support), domestic duties (cleaning, cooking, washing clothes), and income generation (e.g., work in local farms, charcoal burning) (ibid.).…”

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Supporting ‘Young Carers’ in Kenya: From Policy Paralysis to Action

Skovdal¹,

Campbell²,

Onyango³

2013

Child Care in Practice

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African childrepn who care for sick or dying adults are receiving less than optimal support due to confusion about whether or not young caregiving constitutes a form of child labour and the tendency of the authorities to play it 'safe' and side with more abolitionist approaches to children's work, avoiding engagement with support strategies that could be seen as support of child labour. To challenge this view, and move from policy paralysis to action, we present a study from Western Kenya that explores community perceptions of children's work and caregiving as well as opportunities for support. The study draws on 17 community group conversations and 10 individual interviews, involving 283 members of a Luo community in the Bondo District of western Kenya. We provide a detailed account of how integral children's work is to household survival in the context of poverty, HIV and AIDS as well as community recommendations on how they and external service providers can work together in supporting children faced with excessive caregiving and income generation responsibilities. We use our findings to call for less restrictive regulations of children's work and to develop a plan for policy and action for young carers that identifies key actors, their roles and responsibilities, and how they might best collaborate -in a way that is sensitive both to concerns about child labour, as well as community strengths, resources and apprehensions about the stigmatisation of children targeted by agencies.

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“…The consequence of such a call has been explorations of the lived dynamics of age by centring relational concepts such as intergenerationality and intersectionality (Hopkins and Pain, 2007;Vanderbeck, 2007), intersubjectivity and intercorporeality (Ruddick, 2007a;2007b;Hörschelmann and Colls, 2009). This includes research on collective responsibilities for children's food consumption (Colls and Evans B, 2008) and the dynamic relations of care within families (Robson 2000, Evans R 2005, Evans R and Becker 2009, Holloway 1998. Drawing on this work, we therefore suggest in this paper that a relational approach is useful for critical work on embodied pedagogies in providing a means to acknowledge young people's agency without individualising responsibility for health, or simply shifting blame between 'responsible' others (e.g.…”

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