‘If parents are punished for asking their children to feed goats’: supervisory neglect in sub-Saharan Africa

Summary: In the United States and the United Kingdom supervisory neglect of children is premised on a construction of childhood which characterises children as essentially vulnerable and in need of constant care and protection by parents. This Western conception has been transmitted to the countries...

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Main Author: Laird, Siobhan
Format: Article
Published: SAGE 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34626/