Bøger af Christine Oppong

A study of familial contexts of child care and education fifty years ago in Northern Ghana underlines the significance of multiple parental figures and cooperative care. Issues for contemporary social policy are raised.

This book, first published in 1974, was a significant contribution to the comparative sociology of the family at the time, providing an exercise in methodology in which the aim has been to evolve ways of documenting and comparing two major aspects of change in conjugal family relationships.

Examines evidence from across the region and highlights important areas in which policy-relevant research is required.

A study of conjugal and kin relationships in a group of urban, educated West Africans, Akan Senior Civil Servants in Accra. As well as representing a contribution to the growing body of data on marriage and family life in West Africa, the book is an exercise in methodology.