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"I Can't Go to School and Leave Her in So Much Pain": Educational Shortfalls Among Adolescent 'Young Carers' in the South African AIDS Epidemic
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"I go to the hospital with my mother when she is sick. I can't go to school and leave her in so much pain. I won't concentrate." Millions of adolescents live with AIDS-affected parents or primary caregivers. Little is known about educational impacts of living in an AIDS-affected home, or of acting as a "young carer" in the context of AIDS. This study combined qualitative and quantitative methods to determine educational impacts of household AIDS-sickness and other-sickness. Six hundred and fi...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Adolescent Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 581-605
- Publication date:
- 2011-09-02
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1552-6895
- ISSN:
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0743-5584
- Source identifiers:
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353323
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- pubs:353323
- Deposit date:
- 2016-01-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Cluver et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2012. Published by SAGE under license. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from SAGE at: [10.1177/0743558411417868]
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