Mothering in rural Haiti is the subject here, examined through the lakou — at once a cluster of houses and the extended, multigenerational family form that occupies it, long a prominent feature of Haitian life.

Edmond, Randolph, and Richard work in the province of Léogâne, using a cultural-ecological framework and a descriptive, exploratory design to look at how mothers are sustained by family support. They note what the lakou originally rested on: members worked together and provided for one another, financially and otherwise.