A large proportion of Senegalese children must grow up in the absence of one or both birth parents. In all, nearly one in 10 (nine percent) of children aged 0-14 years of age are orphans. There is also a large group of children, accounting for about 10 percent of total 5- 14 year-olds, who are fostered, i.e., children who are not orphans but nonetheless live in a separate household from their parents. This Country Brief explores the effect of orphanhood and fostering on child vulnerability. Evidence is presented indicating that orphanhood increases child vulnerability on one main front: it makes it much more likely that a child is denied schooling. Compared to non-orphans, double orphans are six percentage points less likely to attend school full-time and single orphans are three percentage points less likely to be full-time students. But becoming a single or double orphan does not have a significant effect on the probability that a child is involved fulltime in economic activity. Becoming a foster child actually reduces the probability of fulltime work, but makes it more likely that a child is “inactive”, a category that includes children performing household chores.
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Paper provided by Understanding Children's Work (UCW Project) in its series UCW Working Paper with number
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Length: Date of creation: Sep 2004 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:ucw:worpap:27
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