Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda in Africa (eBook)

Clifford O. Odimegwu (Herausgeber)

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2019 | 1st ed. 2020
XIII, 393 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-14887-4 (ISBN)

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This book is a comprehensive analysis of the structure, determinants and consequences of changes in sub-Saharan African families, thereby representing an Afrocentric description of the emerging trends. It documents various themes in the sub-disciplines of family demography. The first section of the book focuses on philosophical understanding of African family, its theoretical perspectives, and comparative analysis of family in the 20th and 21st centuries. The second section covers family formation, union dissolution, emerging trend in single parenthood, and adolescents in the family. The following section describes types, determinants and consequences of African family changes: health, childbearing, youth development, teen pregnancy and family violence and the last chapter provides systematic evidence on existing laws and policies governing African family structure and dynamics. As such it illustrates the importance of family demography in African demographic discourse and will be an interesting read to scholars and students in the field of demography, social workers, policy makers, departments of Social Development in countries in Africa and relevant international agencies and all those interested in understanding the African family trajectory. 

Clifford Odimegwu is a professor of demography, social statistics and population

health at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His current research

interests include sexual and reproductive health, adult mortality, fertility, family

demography, health systems and interventions. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of

African Population Studies, and Assistant Editor of African Journal of Reproductive

Health. He has a PhD in Demography and Social Statistics from Obafemi Awolowo

University, Ife, Nigeria, and Certificate in International Health from Harvard School

of Public Health.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2019
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 393 p. 45 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Afrocentric description • Changes in sub-Saharan African family • Childbearing • Development • Family formation • Family in the 20th and 21st centuries • Family violence • Philosophical understanding of African family • Population health • Population Studies • single parenthood • sustainability • teen pregnancy • Union dissolution • Youth development
• ISBN-10: 3-030-14887-4 / 3030148874
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-14887-4 / 9783030148874