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Table 2 List of capabilities for achieving healthy child growth outcomes

From: “We struggle with the earth everyday”: parents’ perspectives on the capabilities for healthy child growth in haor region of Bangladesh

Children

Mothers

Fathers

Household

Being able to stay away from disease and eat well

Being able to stay healthy and eat well

Being able to earn in all seasons and provide the family with the things they need

Being able to live in a safe home during the wet season

Being able to be born with God’s blessings and the hereditary traits needed to grow in size

Being able to stay away from domestic violence

Being able to save the future and the one who creates the future

Being able to overcome struggles with the earth to stay neat and clean

Being able to stay happy and playful

Being able to allocate time for child care as desired

Being able to express love by purchasing toys for the children and other items as required

Being able to be mobile in different seasons

 

Being able to be engaged in income- generating activities

Being able to be educated in order to get a job and educate the children

Being able to secure a source of safe drinking water for the family

 

Being able to express love (maya-mohabbat) and take care of the children

Being able to be healthy, energetic, have a brain (intelligence) and be religious

 
 

Being able to be educated in order to provide the children with good care