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Earning their keep? Fostering, children's education, and work in north-western Tanzania

Sophie Hedges · Rebecca Sear · Jim Todd · Mark Urassa · David W. Lawson

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Child Welfare and Adoption Family Dynamics and Relationships Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Abstract

Fostering, raising children that are not one’s biological children, is common in many societies worldwide. Despite predicted lower investment in nonbiological offspring, numerous studies report no obvious well-being penalty for fostered children. Building

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