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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Uncles"”.
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International students living with aunts and uncles: a narrative multiple case study
… international students live with their aunts and uncles while studying in the United States. Living with aunts and uncles shapes these students’ college going experience. However, research about college student family issues has not specifically explored the role and impact of local extended …
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Social support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC): A beneficiary case study of the Ministry of Gender equality and child welfare initiative programme in the Oshana Region
… are torn apart as parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and relatives die. Children are left alone and disadvantaged.Their support system disappears and they are ever afraid
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Kinship and family life of the Herero
… and especially help from brothers' and maternal uncles' is essential for single mothers. Children are also fostered out to close relatives. According to traditional custom women still often have children with their cross-cousins. In this way child gets support from its father and have close …
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Learning and healing: a wellness pedagogy for Aboriginal teacher education /
… grandmothers and grandfathers, the aunties and uncles that are the first teachers of the next generation and the nature of these relationships replicates the culture of unwellness in each subsequent generation through those teachers. There are few examples in the Aboriginal adult education …
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Betel nut & tobacco chewing habits in Durban, Kwazulu Natal
… than two third indicated family members (aunts,uncles and cousins) influence as a reason for chewing, in comparison to influences by parents or grandparents. The study also indicated that parents were far more likely to influence betel nut chewing if grandparents did so (p-value= 0.000). In …
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The upgrade of the public realm through architecture: Re-enforcing existing social practices and community connections in Wentworth, Durban
… resurface through the lifestyles of aunties and uncles (the elders) with their respective job titles, locations in previously racially segregated suburbs, multi-generational living in council houses/flats, and a debilitating reference to race in terms of the apartheid law. I represent a …
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The fellowship of St.Diogo : new Christian judaisers in Coimbra in the early 17th century
… his grandmother and two of his uncles were among his relatives to have been sentenced as judaisers by the Inquisition. His own father kept the Law of Moses, and taught it to all his children, without the knowledge of his wife, an Old Christian of noble lineage. His concern for …
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Family, followers and friends : the socio-political dynamics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, 1100-1204
… strong; outside, it quickly declined. Although uncles and nephews had political links there was considerably less emotional attachment between them than between parent-child and sibling relationships. Three types of follower are examined: household retainers, enfeoffed tenants and 'neighbours'. …
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Teenage Pregnancy in St. Kitts-Nevis: Psychosocial and Familial Factors
… fathers were the least likely perpetrators and uncles and brothers were the main perpetrators. The nonpregnant group placed higher value on their religious experience, but levels of self-esteem were comparable for both groups.</p>
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Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts
… IV). An examination of relations between uncles or aunts and their nieces and nephews proves that other kinds of intergenerational relationship were similarly characterised by ambivalence (chapter V). I further argue that the ambivalence which threatens to undermine parent-child relations …
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The Impact of Family, Community, and Resilience on African-American Young Adults Who Had Parents Incarcerated During Childhood
… sought support and received it from aunts, uncles, brothers, and cousins. Not one child entered foster care during the father‘s imprisonment. Mothers and/or grandmothers were the primary caregivers. Grandmothers became surrogate parents when a significant number of mothers worked multiple …
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Knowledge,Attitudes and Sexual Behavioural Practices Among the Hearing Impaired Pupils in Zambia in the Era of HIV/AIDS: The case of Magwero School for the Deaf in Eastern Province of Zambia
… are kept by their guardians who ranged from uncles, aunties and grandparents. The study alsorevealed that most of the respondents where in boarding while others are day scholars.The awareness about HIV and AIDS was almost universal with almost 100% of the respondents having the knowledge on …
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Knowledge,Attitudes and Sexual Behavioural Practices Among the Hearing Impaired Pupils in Zambia in the Era of HIV/AIDS: The case of Magwero School for the Deaf in Eastern Province of Zambia
… are kept by their guardians who ranged from uncles, aunties and grandparents. The study alsorevealed that most of the respondents where in boarding while others are day scholars.The awareness about HIV and AIDS was almost universal with almost 100% of the respondents having the knowledge on …
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African American Caregivers of Children Affected by Hiv/Aids
The Human Immunodeficiency Disease (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) have reached an epidemic proportion in many African American communities. There is a significant amount of stigma and denial associated with HIV/AIDS in these communities, leaving people with minimal knowledge …