The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty During the Aids Epidemic in Uganda

Intergenerational care for and by children: Examining reciprocity through focus group interviews with older adults in rural Uganda

“…Yet, certain types of assistance that young people provide to older persons may incur costs for children's health, schooling, and general wellbeing. Children, particularly girls, may forfeit time at school to provide assistance to their aging carers (Seeley 2008;Yamano, Shimamura, and Sserunkuuma 2006). While many of our respondents highlight positive aspects of intergenerational exchange, some express concern about children's negative behavior, which can lead to tensions within the care relationship.…”

“…While many of our respondents highlight positive aspects of intergenerational exchange, some express concern about children's negative behavior, which can lead to tensions within the care relationship. The constant financial struggles experienced in many African settings may result in poor parenting practices by older persons and the intergenerational transmission of poverty (Seeley 2008). In such cases older persons may neglect children in their care (Zalwango 2016), with such neglect ranging from greediness to physical abuse on the part of the older person; young people might refuse to support their aging kin with behaviour ranging from a lack of respect to elder abuse.…”

Household Trajectories in Rural Ethiopia: What Can a Mixed Method Approach Tell Us About the Impact of Poverty on Children?

“…While the Young Lives dataset currently only follows children for seven years so cannot be used to analyse the effects of chronic poverty or the intergenerational transfer of poverty, we have tried to capture in the taxonomy aspects that relate to children's 'well-becoming' as well as their wellbeing (Uprichard, 2008), for example, nutrition and school enrolment. Many of these factors also affect the extent to which children will be able to provide a materially secure environment for their own children (Bird, 2007;Seeley, 2008). Davis (2011:11) notes, for example, that 37% of his Bangladeshi sample was poor as children and adults, and the percentage increases to 87% for children who were so poor in childhood that they regularly went without food.…”

Chronic Poverty in Rural Ethiopia through the Lens of Life-histories

“…Finally, Lloyd-Sherlock and Locke (2008) used 22 life histories with older respondents in Buenos Aires to demonstrate the double-edged nature of relationships with children and grandchildren in relation to the respondents' material wellbeing (for example, requests for money or childcare). These requests were so frequent as to represent an intergenerational transfer of poverty from children to parents, a theme addressed by Seeley (2008) in rural Uganda in relation to HIV/AIDS.…”