‘If parents are punished for asking their children to feed goats’: supervisory neglect in sub-Saharan Africa
(2016)
Journal Article
Laird, S. (2016). ‘If parents are punished for asking their children to feed goats’: supervisory neglect in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Social Work, 16(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017315572037
Summary: In the United States and the United Kingdom supervisory neglect of children is premised on a construction of childhood which characterises children as essentially vulnerable and in need of constant care and protection by parents. This Wester... Read More about ‘If parents are punished for asking their children to feed goats’: supervisory neglect in sub-Saharan Africa.