Child tracing: locating the paternal homes of "children born of war". Issue 5 (3rd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mutsonziwa, Tinashe B. C.; Anyeko, Ketty; Baines, Erin
• Is Part Of: Development in practice. Volume 30:Issue 5(2020)
• Page Start: 635
• Page End: 644
• Publication Date: 2020-07-03
• Subjects: Civil society -- Conflict and reconstruction -- Gender and diversity – Youth -- Sub-Saharan Africa; Technical assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 338.91091724
• DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1743234
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-4524

Abstract

ABSTRACT: During the war in northern Uganda, thousands of women abducted as girls by the rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, were released and escaped to return home, many with children born as the result of "forced marriage". Most women and children no longer have contact with their children's father by choice, because they are dead, or their identity is unknown. However, in some cases, mothers seek to identify and unite their children with their paternal clan. We consider the process of child tracing, present some of the reasons driving it, the diversity of cases involved and the challenges faced.