The status of West Africa’s fostered children (WITHDRAWN) • Ama Baafra Abeberese, Columbia University ; Pearl Kyei, Population Council

An anthropological demographic evaluation of why Botswana’s national formal foster care program for orphans failed • Bianca Dahl, Brown University

Who is “vulnerable”? School enrollment among foster-children and orphans in West & Southern Africa • Emily Smith Greenaway, Pennsylvania State University ; Jessica Heckert, Pennsylvania State University

Factors of residential solidarity in Burkina Faso • Sibiri Paul Sawadogo, Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD) ; Souonyir Rogatien Somda, Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD)