Reciprocity, respect and responsibility: The 3Rs underlying parent-child relationships in ghana and the implications for children's rights

International Journal of Children's Rights

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 415-432

  Twum Danso, Afua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children's rights; Crc; Ghana; Parent child relationships; Reciprocity; Respect; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549114681     PISSN: 09275568     EISSN: 15718182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157181809X430337     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Allman, Jean and Vicky Tashijian (2000), I Will Not Eat Stone: A Women's History of Colonial Asante, Ports, New Haven and Oxford: Heinemann and James Currey Ltd.
2. Amadiume, Ifi (2000), Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women Struggle for Culture, Power And Democracy, London and New York: Zed Books.
3. Awedoba, Albert K. (2002), Culture and Development in Africa with Special References to Ghana, Accra: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana Legon.
4. Azu, Diane Gladys (1974), Ga Family and Social Change, Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum.
5. Cattell, Maria (1997), 'The Discourse of Neglect: Family Support for the Elderly in Samia', in Thomas Weisner, Candice Bradley, Philip Kilbride (eds.), African Families and the Crisis of Social Change, Wesport, Connecticut and London: Bergin and Garvey.
6. Ghana Statistical Service (2003), Ghana Child Labour Survey, Accra: Ghana Statistical Service.
7. Goody, Esther (1973), Context of Kinship: An Essay in the Family Sociology of the Gonja of Northern Ghana, London and New York: Cambridge University Press.
8. Gyeke, Kwame (1996), African Cultural Values: An Introduction, Accra: Sankofa Publishing Company.
9. Kaye, Barrington (1962), Bringing up Children in Ghana: An Impressionistic Survey, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
10. Kuada, John and Chachah (1999), Ghana: Understanding the Peopleand their Culture, Accra: Woeli Publishing Services.
11. Laird, Siobhan (2002), 'The 1998 Children's Act: Problems of Enforcement in Ghana', British Journal of Social Work 32.
12. Levine, Robert and Barbara Levine (1963), 'Nyansongo: A Gusii Community in Kenya' in Beatrice B. Whiting (ed.), Six Cultures: Studies of Child Rearing, New York and London: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
13. Lloyd, Amanda (2003), Regional Developments on the Rights and Welfare of Children in Africa; A General Report on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the African Committee of Experts, unpublished article.
14. Mensa-Bonsu, Henrietta and Dowuona-Hammond (1996), 'The Child within the Ghanaian Family' in Elizabeth Ardayfi o-Schandorf (ed.), The Changing Family in Ghana, Accra: Ghana University Press.
15. Nsamenang, A.B. (1992), Human Development in a Cultural Context: A Third World Perspective, Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
16. Nsamenang, A.B. (2002), 'Adolescence in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Image Constructed from Africa's Triple Inheritance', in B. Bradford Brown, R.W. Larson & T.S. Saraswathi (eds.), The World's Youth: Adolescence in Eight Regions of the Globe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
17. Nsamenang, A.B. (2004), Cultures of Human Development and Education: Challenge to Growing Up African, New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc.
18. Nukunya, G.K. (2003), Tradition and Change in Ghana: An Introduction to Sociology, Accra: Ghana Universities Press, Second Edition.
19. Obeng, Christiana (1998), 'Cultural Relativity in Ghana: Perspectives and Attitudes', in Victoria Johnson, Edda Ivan-Smith, Gill Gordon, Pat Pridmore and Patta Scott (eds.), Stepping Forward: Children and Young People's Participation in the Development Process, London: Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd.
20. Oppong, Christine (1973), Growing up in Dagbon, Accra: Ghana Publishing Corporation.
21. Oppong, Christine (2006), 'Demographic Innovation and Nutritional Catastrophe: Change, Lack of Change and Difference in Ghanaian Family Systems', in Goran Therborn (ed.), African Families in A Global Context, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
22. Pellow, Deborah (1977), Women in Accra: Options for Autonomy, Michigan: Reference Publica - tions Inc.
23. Riesman, Paul (1992), First Find Yourself a Good Mother: The Construction of Self in Two African Communities, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
24. Schildkrout, Enid (1978), 'Age and Gender in Hausa Society: Socio-Economic Roles of Children in Urban Kano', in J.S. La Fontaine (ed.), Sex and Age as Principles of Social Differentiation, London and New York: Academic Press.
25. Serpell, Robert (1993), The Significance of Schooling: Life-Journeys in an African Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26. Therborn, Göran (2006), 'African Families in a Global Context', in Göran Therborn (ed.), African Families in A Global Context, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
27. Twum-Danso, Afua (forthcoming, 2009a), 'International Children's Rights', in Heather Montgomery and Mary Kellet (eds.), Children and Young People's Worlds: Developing Frameworks for Integrated Practice, Bristol: Polity Press.
28. Twum-Danso, Afua (forthcoming, 2009b), 'The Construction of Childhood and the Socialization of Children: The Implications for the Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Ghana', in Nigel Thomas and Barry Percy-Smith (eds.), Participation: Theory and Practice, Oxford: Routledge.
29. Van Bueren, Geraldine (1995), The International Law on the Rights of the Child, Dordrecht/Boston/ London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
30. Woll, Lisa (2000), The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Impact Study, Stockholm: Save the Children Sweden.