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Understanding Kinship Care of Children in Africa : a Family Environment or an Alternative Care Option?.
The Comparative African Legal Studies series aims to profile research in the fields of children, youth, families, gender, disability, education, and socio-economic rights. It focuses on contemporary issues in African development, with human rights as a backdrop. In an era in which growing numbers of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Utrecht :
Eleven International Publishing,
2014.
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| Colección: | Comparative African legal studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Kinship Care in Law, Policy and Practice; 1.3 Kinship Care in an African Context; 1.4 Method and Approach; 1.5 Scope and Limitations; 1.6 Structure; 1.7 Glossary/Definition of Terms; 2 Kinship Care of Children in Africa: The Underlying Context; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Kinship Systems and the Extended Family in Africa: Historical Perspectives; 2.2.1 Marriage and Children: The Basis of African Kinship Systems and Family Environment.
- 2.2.2 Kinship Responsibilities for the Care of the Child in Traditional African Societies2.2.3 Kinship and the Responsibilities of the Child; 2.3 The Family in International Law; 2.3.1 The 'Right to a Family': Definitional Issues; 2.3.2 Existing and Changing Family Forms and Functions; 2.3.3 Contemporary Issues Affecting the Family: Focus on Africa; 2.4 Kinship Care and Children's Familial Rights: The Relationship between Family and States Parties' Obligations; 2.4.1 The Right to Preservation of Identity: Name, Nationality and Knowledge of and Care by the Child's Parents.
- 2.4.2 Parental Direction and Guidance2.4.3 Parental Responsibility; 2.4.4 The Rights to Social Security and an Adequate Standard of Living; 2.4.4.1 The Relationship between Children's Rights to Social Security and an Adequate Standard of Living; 2.4.4.2 Children's Rights to Social Security and an Adequate Standard of Living under the ACRWC; 2.4.4.3 Social Security and Adequate Standard of Living: States Parties' Obligations; 2.5 Conclusions; 3 The International and African Regional Legal Framework for the Right to Alternative Care; 3.1 Introduction.
- 3.2 Before the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Children's Charter3.2.1 The Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1924); 3.2.2 The Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959); 3.2.3 The Declaration on Social and Legal Principles Relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally (1986); 3.2.4 The Declaration on the Rights and Welfare of the African Child (1979); 3.3 The Convention on the Rights of the Child; 3.4 The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.
- 3.5 General Principles of the CRC and the African Children's Charter and the Right to Alternative Care3.5.1 Non-Discrimination; 3.5.2 The Best Interests of the Child; 3.5.3 Life, Survival and Development; 3.5.4 The Right of the Child to Be Heard (Child Participation); 3.6 The Right to Alternative Care: Analysis of Articles 20 of the CRC and 25 of the ACRWC; 3.6.1 Family Environment; 3.6.2 Children Deprived of a Family Environment; 3.6.3 Special Protection and Assistance; 3.6.4 The Best Interests of the Child and Continuity in Upbringing; 3.6.5 Alternative Care; 3.6.5.1 Foster Care.