Where Should Orphaned and Separated Children and Adolescents Live: Comparing Institutionalized- and Family-Based Venues in Kenya

Abstract

Parents and children from low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) may have a myriad of health and social challenges that increase the risk of parental death, chronic conditions, or acute serious illnesses in parents or children, or family economic hardships that can result in child abandonment or orphanhood. Such conditions can include HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, physical or mental trauma, undermanaged chronic diseases, mental health disabilities, 1 civil strife, extreme poverty with food and housing insecurities, and many others. The intergenerational consequence of such parental