Abstract In many Sub‐Saharan African countries, the care of chronically ill, disabled or
elderly relatives is usually regarded as the responsibility of family members, within a broader …

The new updated edition of Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in
which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural …

Background: Research has widely documented how, even in conditions of extreme poverty,
deprivation, or oppression, children are competent and situated actors, capable of actively …

What, if anything, is special about youth with respect to engagement in food systems? This
question is important, owing to the size of the current demographic cohort of youth, globally …

Child-headed households (CHHs), in which adults or guardians are either absent or not fully
functioning in terms of providing for the material and emotional needs of children, have been …

The concept of 'agency'is regularly put forward as an analytic tool to help understand,
evaluate and act upon places around the world, through social development policies and …

This paper explores the ways that young people express their agency and negotiate
complex lifecourse transitions according to gender, age and inter‐and intra‐generational …

Parents can play an important role in assisting their children to learn to read, and can act as
good role models in promoting reading behaviour. While there has been a raft of research …

Background Children exposed political violence deploy resources to maintain functioning,
hope and life satisfaction. Objective We sought to explore whether or not children promote …

Our research challenges the picture of children exposed to political violence as helpless
victims, portraying them as active agents who mobilize resources both within themselves …