Global Perspectives on Children’s Unpaid Caregiving in the Family

Becker, Saul

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“…An Austrian study suggests a rate of 3.5% young carers with an average age of 12.5 years and a majority of female young carers (Nagl‐Cupal, Daniel, Koller, & Mayer, ). This national prevalence data support the notion that the prevalence of informal caring in the underage population is at minimum 2%–4% in all western countries (Becker, ).…”

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Being we and being me: Exploring the needs of Austrian families with caring children

Nagl‐Cupal

Hauprich

2018

Health Soc Care Community

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Children and adolescents with caring responsibilities are an uncontested reality in our society. Most are hidden from public view, and they perform a broad range of caring activities for chronically ill or disabled family members. The research literature has accumulated a comprehensive body of knowledge about young carers' personal needs. However, knowledge and understanding are limited regarding the needs of young carers' families. This knowledge can contribute to preventing children and adolescents from assuming inappropriate caring roles. A qualitative research approach was used to investigate the needs of young carers' families in terms of managing daily caring demands. Nine family interviews were conducted with 34 individuals including 15 young carers during spring/summer 2015 in eastern Austria. Open and axial coding procedures and constant comparison method were used to analyse the data. The findings revealed that young carers' families need to live in accordance with their inherent family logic. Family logic is generated and maintained via (i) family reciprocity that involves the natural help within the family, (ii) individual developmental space that allows family members to be perceived and act as individuals and (iii) network cooperation that offers formal and informal support and recognition from society in general. The findings contribute to understanding how families with caring children manage the caring demands of their everyday lives. The findings also indicate that formal support for families with young carers should consider the individuality of caring arrangements with respect to the holistic and personal needs and avoid stigmatising families that integrate children into caring.

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Being we and being me: Exploring the needs of Austrian families with caring children

Nagl‐Cupal

Hauprich

2018

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“…Children in AIDSimpacted families are an egregious example (Cluver, Orkin et al, 2012), in having to assume caring responsibilities that are more extensive and intimate than the household work young people do in Africa (Robson, Ansell, Huber, Gould, & Van Blerk, 2006), because the poverty resulting from AIDS-sickness or -orphanhood restricts access to adequate health care (Becker, 2007).…”

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Pathways to poor educational outcomes for HIV/AIDS-affected youth in South Africa

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A recent systematic review of studies in the developing world has critically examined linkages from familial HIV/AIDS and associated factors such as poverty and child mental health to negative child educational outcomes. In line with several recommendations in the review, the current study modelled relationships between familial HIV/AIDS, poverty, child internalising problems, gender and four educational outcomes: non-enrolment at school, non-attendance, deficits in grade progression and concentration problems. Path analyses reveal no direct associations between familial HIV/AIDS and any of the educational outcomes. Instead, HIV/AIDS-orphanhood or caregiver HIV/AIDS-sickness impacted indirectly on educational outcomes via the poverty and internalising problems that they occasioned. This has implications for evidence-based policy inferences. For instance, by addressing such intervening variables generally, rather than by seeking to target families affected by HIV/AIDS, interventions could avoid exacerbating stigmatisation, while having a more direct and stronger impact on children's educational outcomes. This analytic approach also suggests that future research should seek to identify causal paths, and may include other intervening variables related to poverty (such as child housework and caring responsibilities) or to child mental health (such as stigma and abuse), that are linked to both familial HIV/AIDS and educational outcomes.

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“…Becker (2007) examines the role of young caregivers in Australia, UK, USA and sub-Saharan Africa, finding that young carers have much in common irrespective of where they live or how developed their national welfare system is.…”

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Who are the young people who are not in education, employment or training? An application of the risk factors to a rural area in the UK

Sadler

Akister

Burch

2014

International Social Work

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Young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are a focus of government attention in the UK. For social service professionals the mechanisms underpinning the individual experience of NEET are critical to designing effective interventions. International comparisons point to similar experiences at the level of the individual family. This article examines the factors that may contribute to a young person becoming NEET and applies these to the demographics of a rural area in England. Poor educational attainment and low socio-economic status are key factors, with the mental well-being of young people as a proposed underpinning mechanism.

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Global Perspectives on Children’s Unpaid Caregiving in the Family

Cited by 238 publications

References 27 publications

Being we and being me: Exploring the needs of Austrian families with caring children

Being we and being me: Exploring the needs of Austrian families with caring children

Pathways to poor educational outcomes for HIV/AIDS-affected youth in South Africa

Who are the young people who are not in education, employment or training? An application of the risk factors to a rural area in the UK

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