Six years after my stay in northern Namibia, where I conducted fieldwork for my Master's
thesis, I returned to Namibia for my PhD research. It was a very special moment to meet with …

Foster care is a major area of interest within the field of social work studies. The South
African welfare system has not done enough to assist the youth exiting the system. This …

The study explored the perceptions and lived experiences of self-rated health, access to
health, and state of health services for grandparent caregivers in Zimbabwe. In–depth …

This paper reports on the challenges experienced by orphaned adolescent males in Sub-
Saharan countries. Literature research indicates that due to lack of physiological needs (for …

This paper presents a study to investigate the effects of children, household and contextual
factors on primary school non-‐attendance among children in North West Nigeria. This is to …

Children in Tanzania commonly live apart from their parents for a variety of reasons. Yet we
know surprisingly little about this consequential social arrangement and its impact on …

Objectives: Evolutionary theory predicts grandmothers to invest more in their daughters'
children than in their son's children, because of higher likelihood of being genetically related …