Family Structure and Child Educational Attainment in the Slums of Nairobi, Kenya

Autor/inn/en	Abuya, Benta A.; Mutisya, Maurice; Onsomu, Elijah O.; Ngware, Moses; Oketch, Moses
Titel	Family Structure and Child Educational Attainment in the Slums of Nairobi, Kenya
Quelle	In: SAGE Open, 9 (2019) 2, (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Abuya, Benta A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2158-2440
DOI	10.1177/2158244019855849
Schlagwörter	Family Structure; Children; Educational Attainment; Slums; Foreign Countries; Family (Sociological Unit); Academic Achievement; Outcomes of Education; Family Income; Urban Areas; Parent Child Relationship; Parents; Siblings; Hypothesis Testing; Kenya (Nairobi) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Child; Kind; Kinder; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Slum; Ausland; Familie; Schulleistung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Familieneinkommen; Urban area; Stadtregion; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Eltern; Sibling; Geschwister; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest
Abstract	Research shows that children living with two biological parents outperform those raised in other family structures. A growing number of children do not live with two biological parents in sub-Saharan Africa, but few studies have examined the consequences. In this article, data from the African Population and Health Research Center collected in the slums of Nairobi are fitted to a logistic regression model to test the hypothesis that two-parent families are most favorable to schooling outcomes in Kenya. After controlling for socioeconomic variables, the effect of family structure on educational attainment of children persists. Children in two-parent households were 40% (unadjusted odds ratio [UOR] = 1.40, p = 0.01) and 16% (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.16, p = 0.1) more likely to be in the right age for grade compared with children in one-parent households. The study calls for strengthening single-parent households to achieve better educational outcomes for the children. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01