Rethinking the Meaning of Family for Adolescents and Youth in Zimbabwe’s Child Welfare Institutions

Getrude Dadirai Gwenzi is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at the University of Zimbabwe, and Research Associate with the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research interests include child welfare, orphans, vulnerable children, care leavers, and families. She has been researching children and young people in state institutions since 2014.

• ​1. Introduction.- 2. A Study on Family Meanings.- 3. Theorising Family Meanings.- 4. Constructing “Family” During Child-Family Separation.- 5. Family in Southern Africa.- 6. Adolescents’ and Youths’ “Family Meanings” in Zimbabwe.- 7. Rethinking the Meaning of Family for Adolescents and Youths in Zimbabwe’s Child Welfare Institutions.