ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows economic environment that refers to livelihood possibilities that dictated income options and also refers to costs for services, such as hidden school fees as well as health clinic and medicine costs. The economic environment of the home was strongly dependent on the mother's income-generation responsibilities. The Linguistic Environment refers to the home language environment and its separation from the school language and literacy environment. Language and literacy represented a deep and far-reaching set of issues. The idea of parental ethno-theories informed the analysis of mothers' perceptions as these ethno-theories provided cultural insight into sickness and health, gender norms and behavior, and funds of knowledge mothers tapped into in the care of their children. The set of situational givens of mothers' lives is cyclical and grounded in culture and context.
