Veränderungen elterlicher VerpÁ ichtungen durch „Bildung für alle“: Eine Untersuchung im ländlichen Raum Nordbenins.

Due to large educational campaigns and the neoliberalization of the schooling system at the beginning of the 21st century, parental responsibilities and duties towards their children have changed fundamentally in the Republic of Benin. This concerns not only the costs for enrolment and educational means, but also for additional expenses related to schooling, as for instance the costs for their daughters´ pregnancies during their schooling careers. In addition, parents do often take responsibility for their children´s children. As grandparents, they help enabling their children´s further schooling careers. Last but not least, parents often pay additional educations such as apprenticeships, in order to help their children integrate in the labour markets, if schooling alone is not enough. Looking at these empirical findings, the slogans of the educational campaigns, such as “education for all” appear as an alibi that veils the unwillingness or inability of the nation state to take responsibility for a functioning schooling system and to provide the population with real educational chances. This gap is filled by the parents and their moral and economical ability to support their children as far as it is possible for them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]