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Children’s family network
It is almost a truism to say that the family environment in sub-Saharan Africa is complex. The contours of membership groups—residential, economic, lineage—are variable; relationships between spouses and family members take a wide range of forms (polygamy, sizeable age differences between spouses, intergenerational co-residence, classificatory system of kinship) and mobility is high, starting in childhood. In short, individuals—especially children—are bound ...