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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.



Table of Contents
​1. Introduction2. A Study on Family Meanings
3. Theorising Family Meanings4. Constructing “Family” During Child-Family Separation5. Family in Southern Africa6. Adolescents’ and Youths’ “Family Meanings” in Zimbabwe7. Rethinking the Meaning of Family for Adolescents and Youths in Zimbabwe’s Child Welfare Institutions

Rethinking the Meaning of Family for Adolescents and Youth in Zimbabwe’s Child Welfare Institutions

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      Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
      Publication Date: 15/02/2023
      ISBN13: 9783031233746, 978-3031233746
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      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Table of Contents
      ​1. Introduction2. A Study on Family Meanings
      3. Theorising Family Meanings4. Constructing “Family” During Child-Family Separation5. Family in Southern Africa6. Adolescents’ and Youths’ “Family Meanings” in Zimbabwe7. Rethinking the Meaning of Family for Adolescents and Youths in Zimbabwe’s Child Welfare Institutions

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