Six Grandparents and HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Akpovire Oduaran
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the analysis of the role of grandparents in ageing Sub-Saharan Africa. It observes that Africa is beginning to re-discover and apply what had worked in the past in terms of building tacit intergenerational relationships in an era of globalisation. It focuses on emerging patterns of distorted family relations and their coping strategies with the ‘missing generation’ in the middle as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It focuses mainly on introducing new trends in grandparenting, while the pandemic is decimating the region’s human capital.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the analysis of the role of grandparents in ageing Sub-Saharan Africa. It observes that Africa is beginning to re-discover and apply what had worked in the past in terms of building tacit intergenerational relationships in an era of globalisation. It focuses on emerging patterns of distorted family relations and their coping strategies with the ‘missing generation’ in the middle as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It focuses mainly on introducing new trends in grandparenting, while the pandemic is decimating the region’s human capital.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables and figures vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- Foreword x
- Introduction 1
- Globalisation, global ageing and intergenerational change 13
- Theoretical perspectives on intergenerational solidarity, conflict and ambivalence 29
- Globalised transmissions of housing wealth and return migration 57
- Housing wealth and family reciprocity in East Asia 77
- Grandparents and HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa 95
- Spiritual debts and gendered costs 111
- Reciprocity in intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies 129
- New patterns of family reciprocity? Policy challenges in ageing societies 149
- Index 161
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables and figures vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- Foreword x
- Introduction 1
- Globalisation, global ageing and intergenerational change 13
- Theoretical perspectives on intergenerational solidarity, conflict and ambivalence 29
- Globalised transmissions of housing wealth and return migration 57
- Housing wealth and family reciprocity in East Asia 77
- Grandparents and HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa 95
- Spiritual debts and gendered costs 111
- Reciprocity in intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies 129
- New patterns of family reciprocity? Policy challenges in ageing societies 149
- Index 161
