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Because researchers tend to orient themselves around the dualisms traditional/modern & rural/urban, they fail to understand changes in child rearing in rural areas. Studied are such changes in rural Africa, focusing on the period of early childhood, during which the child depends upon its mother as the greatest source of socialization. The monetarization of the economy-the development of commercial cultures-has forced women to develop new types of relationships with their children. It is observed in the villages of the Ivory Coast that, while the solidarity of the family & the couple is weakened, that of the mother & her children is strengthened. In the traditional society, the task of educating the child was shared by the community of parents, while in the commercial society, the mother has individualized the role to her unique function. The child becomes the support for all the projects she has lost in the economic structure of the commercial society. AA Tr & Modified by K. Shabetai.

The French military intervention against the Islamists, which many Malians had both hoped for and feared over recent months, has now been launched. It was the jihadist attack on the town of Konna on 9-10 January that sparked everything off. We were so afraid on hearing that news that the sound of a foreign army's boots has aroused joy and relief among the population rather than anger. What is perhaps less apparent is a degree of embarrassment, even a sense of shame. Malians know that their army was facing a strong adversary, but they are also aware that there will be a high price to pay for the military debacle, which has put Paris in the position of liberator. I am among those who wanted at all costs to keep the hyena out of the sheepfold, but there it is; my friends and I have lost this battle for peace. Adapted from the source document.