Overview
Provides a comprehensive analysis of the structure, determinants and consequences of changes in sub-Saharan African family
Describes extended household configurations and family arrangements
Illustrates the importance of family demography in African demographic discourse
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Development
- Sustainability
- Changes in sub-Saharan African family
- Afrocentric description
- Philosophical understanding of African family
- Family in the 20th and 21st centuries
- Family formation
- Union dissolution
- Single parenthood
- Childbearing
- Youth development
- Teen pregnancy
- Family violence
- Population studies
- Population health
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda in Africa
Editors: Clifford O. Odimegwu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14887-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14886-7Published: 05 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14889-8Published: 05 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14887-4Published: 27 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 393
Number of Illustrations: 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Demography, Population Economics, African Politics