The first comprehensive look at youth living in a country
attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict,
Children of Afghanistan relies on the research and fieldwork of
twenty-one experts to cover an incredible range of topics. Focusing
on the full scope of childhood, from birth through young adulthood,
this edited volume examines a myriad of issues: early childhood
socialization in war and peace; education, literacy, vocational
training, and apprenticeship; refugee life; mental and physical
health, including disabilities and nutrition; children's songs,
folktales, and art; sports and play; orphans; life on the streets;
child labor and children as family breadwinners; child soldiers and
militarization; sexual exploitation; growing up in prison;
marriage; family violence; and other issues vital to understanding,
empowerment, and transformation.
Children of Afghanistan is the first volume that not only
attempts to analyze the range of challenges facing Afghan children
across class, gender, and region but also offers solutions to the
problems they face. With nearly half of the population under the
age of fifteen, the future of the country no doubt lies with its
children. Those who seek peace for the region must find solutions
to the host of crises that have led the United Nations to call
Afghanistan "the worst place on earth to be born." The authors of
Children of Afghanistan provide child-centered solutions to
rebuilding the country's cultural, social, and economic
institutions.
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