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Introduction Introduction
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Pre-colonial strategies to ensure the survival, welfare and education of children Pre-colonial strategies to ensure the survival, welfare and education of children
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The interventions of colonial actors on child welfare issues The interventions of colonial actors on child welfare issues
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Post-independence child-focused policies Post-independence child-focused policies
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Conclusion Conclusion
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4 Historical Approaches to Child Welfare in Ghana
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Published:July 2024
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Abstract
In order to highlight the variable ways dominant children’s rights discourses intersect with the realities of different groups of children, this volume focuses on Ghana, the first country to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In order to understand the plurality that this variability produces in this context it is first important to take a long historical view to child welfare and the emergence of children’s rights as a framework to guide policy interventions and public debates in this context. As a result, this chapter provides a historical overview which foregrounds approaches to child welfare in the country now known as Ghana in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods. Specifically, it illuminates the extent to which diverse actors in charge of child welfare in this context devised a range of strategies to protect children’s welfare or facilitate their development. However, at the same time it shows that at various stages of the country’s history, the search for securing the welfare of the kinship group/community or the state resulted in poorer or adverse welfare outcomes for, primarily, children.
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