Mauritanian children endure life on the streets

Mauritania's street kids live on the social margins of one of the world's poorest countries. Authorities in the West African nation fear their numbers are growing, fuelled partly by the breakdown of traditional family structures and increasing urbanisation. A handful of shelters have been set up to care for homeless children, but demand is outweighing capacity. Duration: 01:30

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0:29 Sociologist Sidi Ould El Jeyid from the University of Nouakchott is calling for traditional family values. But based on what society? Western core family of 2 children? Herbicultural extented family? I'm reading a book by Kimmo Jokinen & Kimmo Saaristo called Sociology, which says that the core family was formed just 150 years ago in the Industrialization, and that Talcott Parsons' structural functionalism's idea of tasks of genders are not quite right for the women or post-modernism

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AFP is reporting how market economy makes everybody free and should be adopted by far away cultures.