TY - JOUR
T1 - Cluster foster care
T2 - A panacea for the care of children in the era of HIV/AIDS or an MCQ?
AU - Gallinetti, Jacqui
AU - Sloth-Nielsen, Julia
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010/10/1
Y1 - 2010/10/1
N2 - The ravages wrought by HIV/AIDS on child-care arrangements in the African context are well documented (Richter & Sherr, 2009; Sloth-Nielsen & Mezmur, 2008; Tsegaye, 2007; sources cited there). Notably, these constitute the breakdown of traditional kinship structures whichwould ordinarily have accommodated orphans and other vulnerable children, a decrease in thecapacity of existing extended family structures to care for the numbers of children requiring alternative care, and the emergence of child-headed households. The topic of child-headed households, too, has emerged as a key concept in international child rights law (Couzens &Zaal, 2009; Sloth-Nielsen, 2004; Sloth-Nielsen in Skelton & Davel, 2010; UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC), General Comment No. 3 on HIV/AIDS and the rights ofthe child, 2003), and this phenomenon has been directly related to the onset of the pandemic.
AB - The ravages wrought by HIV/AIDS on child-care arrangements in the African context are well documented (Richter & Sherr, 2009; Sloth-Nielsen & Mezmur, 2008; Tsegaye, 2007; sources cited there). Notably, these constitute the breakdown of traditional kinship structures whichwould ordinarily have accommodated orphans and other vulnerable children, a decrease in thecapacity of existing extended family structures to care for the numbers of children requiring alternative care, and the emergence of child-headed households. The topic of child-headed households, too, has emerged as a key concept in international child rights law (Couzens &Zaal, 2009; Sloth-Nielsen, 2004; Sloth-Nielsen in Skelton & Davel, 2010; UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC), General Comment No. 3 on HIV/AIDS and the rights ofthe child, 2003), and this phenomenon has been directly related to the onset of the pandemic.
KW - South Africa
KW - Child care
KW - United Nations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78649837391&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78649837391
VL - 46
SP - 486
EP - 495
JO - Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk
JF - Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk
SN - 0037-8054
IS - 4
ER -