What is it about?
The manuscript highlights strategies of creative adaptation, methodologies of survival, and ways of making do used by children and youth in urban poverty in a Kenyan city to cope and deal more effectively with adversity.
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Why is it important?
The manuscript shows that individual attributes, bonding to family and support systems, involvement in extracurricular activities, lower levels of parental discord, fewer adverse life events, and being less involved with delinquent peers constitute protective factors that enhance resiliency.
Perspectives
Children and youth born and growing-up in situations of adversity have agency, which combined with other factors like communal involvement in care and up-bringing propels them out of potentially risk and adverse situations.
Mr Mokua Ombati
Moi University, Kenya
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This page is a summary of: Sources of resilience for children and youth in residential slums of Eldoret city in Kenya, Chinese Sociological Dialogue, June 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2397200916667622.
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