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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Anticipatory child fostering and household economic security in Malawi</title><author><name sortKey="Bachan, Lauren K" sort="Bachan, Lauren K" uniqKey="Bachan L" first="Lauren K." last="Bachan">Lauren K. Bachan</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="A1">The Pennsylvania State University. 211 Oswald Tower. University Park, PA 16802, USA. Tel: 617-997-9078.</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">PMC</idno><idno type="pmid">25419172</idno><idno type="pmc">4238104</idno><idno type="url">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4238104</idno><idno type="RBID">PMC:4238104</idno><idno type="doi">10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.40</idno><date when="2014">2014</date><idno type="wicri:Area/Pmc/Corpus">001975</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Pmc" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="PMC">001975</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title xml:lang="en" level="a" type="main">Anticipatory child fostering and household economic security in Malawi</title><author><name sortKey="Bachan, Lauren K" sort="Bachan, Lauren K" uniqKey="Bachan L" first="Lauren K." last="Bachan">Lauren K. Bachan</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="A1">The Pennsylvania State University. 211 Oswald Tower. University Park, PA 16802, USA. Tel: 617-997-9078.</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Demographic research</title><idno type="eISSN">1435-9871</idno><imprint><date when="2014">2014</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><sec id="S1"><title>BACKGROUND</title><p id="P1">While there is a rich literature on the practice of child fostering in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about how fostering impacts receiving households, as few studies consider household conditions both before and after fostering. Despite the fact that circumstances surrounding fostering vary, the literature’s key distinction of fostering is often drawn along the simple line of whether or not a household is fostering a child. This paper argues that anticipation of fostering responsibilities, in particular, is a useful dimension to distinguish fostering experiences for receiving households.</p></sec><sec id="S2"><title>OBJECTIVE</title><p id="P2">This paper examines the relationship between receiving a foster child and subsequent changes in household wealth. Particular emphasis is placed on how these changes are conditioned by differing levels of anticipation of the fostering event.</p></sec><sec id="S3"><title>METHODS</title><p id="P3">This study uses data from Tsogolo la Thanzi (TLT), a longitudinal survey in Balaka, Malawi. Using data from 1754 TLT respondents, fixed effects pooled time-series models are estimated to assess whether and how receiving a foster child changes household wealth.</p></sec><sec id="S4"><title>RESULTS</title><p id="P4">This paper demonstrates the heterogeneity of fostering experiences for receiving households. The results show that households that anticipate fostering responsibilities experience a greater increase in household wealth than both households that do not foster and those that are surprised by fostering.</p></sec><sec id="S5"><title>CONCLUSION</title><p id="P5">Households that anticipate fostering responsibilities exhibit the greatest increase in household wealth. While fostering households that do not anticipate fostering responsibilities may not experience these gains, there is no evidence to indicate that such households are negatively impacted relative to households that do not foster. This finding suggests that additional childcare responsibilities may not be as detrimental to African households as some researchers have feared.</p></sec></div></front></TEI><pmc article-type="research-article"><pmc-comment>The publisher of this article does not allow downloading of the full text in XML form.</pmc-comment>
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<permissions><copyright-statement>© 2014 Lauren K. Bachan.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year></permissions><abstract><sec id="S1"><title>BACKGROUND</title><p id="P1">While there is a rich literature on the practice of child fostering in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about how fostering impacts receiving households, as few studies consider household conditions both before and after fostering. Despite the fact that circumstances surrounding fostering vary, the literature’s key distinction of fostering is often drawn along the simple line of whether or not a household is fostering a child. This paper argues that anticipation of fostering responsibilities, in particular, is a useful dimension to distinguish fostering experiences for receiving households.</p></sec><sec id="S2"><title>OBJECTIVE</title><p id="P2">This paper examines the relationship between receiving a foster child and subsequent changes in household wealth. Particular emphasis is placed on how these changes are conditioned by differing levels of anticipation of the fostering event.</p></sec><sec id="S3"><title>METHODS</title><p id="P3">This study uses data from Tsogolo la Thanzi (TLT), a longitudinal survey in Balaka, Malawi. Using data from 1754 TLT respondents, fixed effects pooled time-series models are estimated to assess whether and how receiving a foster child changes household wealth.</p></sec><sec id="S4"><title>RESULTS</title><p id="P4">This paper demonstrates the heterogeneity of fostering experiences for receiving households. The results show that households that anticipate fostering responsibilities experience a greater increase in household wealth than both households that do not foster and those that are surprised by fostering.</p></sec><sec id="S5"><title>CONCLUSION</title><p id="P5">Households that anticipate fostering responsibilities exhibit the greatest increase in household wealth. While fostering households that do not anticipate fostering responsibilities may not experience these gains, there is no evidence to indicate that such households are negatively impacted relative to households that do not foster. This finding suggests that additional childcare responsibilities may not be as detrimental to African households as some researchers have feared.</p></sec></abstract></article-meta></front></pmc></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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