A Theoretical Framework for Child Fostering Arrangements in Sub-saharan Africa
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The paper provides a first economic analysis of the phenomenon of fostering in SSA, paying particular attention to the economic incentives and consequences for natural and foster parents. Fostering, both of young and older children, can be a mutually advantageous arrangement to natural and foster parents, when it exploits the differences between the two parties in the opportunity cost of time, in the life cycle phases, and in the potential for child education and training. In some cases, the transfer of a child per se can bring net benefits to both parties. Therefore, monetary transfers are not always necessary to make fostering exchanges mutually advantageous. However, fostering arrangements do not always lead the parties to benefit equally, even allowing for a long horizon. This is so because fostering transactions may be embedded in other types of relationships between natural and foster parents, who are usually relatives. In these instances, fostering provides functions that lie beyond the child care domain, such as informal insurance and kinship support. The effects of fostering on child welfare do not depend on the way benefits are distributed among the parties, and are often linked to child own characteristics. Fostering is more often the consequence, rather than the cause, of the observed discrimination among children.
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