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Extended family childcare arrangements in a context of AIDS: collapse or adaptation
AIDS Care, 10/05/09

Mathambo V et al. – Recently, there has been growing interest in the capacity of the extended family to care for the increasing number of children whose parents have died. However, literature on the role of the extended family in caring for orphaned children remains contradictory. One approach – the social rupture thesis – suggests that the extended family network is collapsing under the strain of AIDS. On the other hand, families are portrayed as resilient and dynamic entities which are adapting their systems of childcare in response to the epidemic.

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