Parent-figures and adolescent resilience: an African perspective

This article’s purpose is directed by three, previously unanswered questions. First, which parent-figures (i.e., biological and social parents), if any, do adolescents from two disadvantaged communities in South Africa identify when they explain the process of their personal resilience? Second, do rural and urban adolescents report the same parent-figures? Third, how do these parent-figures champion resilience and in what ways (if any) does...