DAWN to support new laws against Maintenance defaulters
25 June 2014
Today the DA Women's Network gathers outside Parliament to announce important new steps to crackdown on child maintenance defaulters.
An estimated 9 million children are growing up in South Africa without fathers. From 1996 to 2009, the proportion of living fathers who are absent from their children's lives increased from 42% to 48%.
The fact that almost half of South Africa's children grow up without a father is one of the biggest factors contributing to a life of poverty for so many of our young people.
An absent father places children at higher risk of drug and alcohol abuse. They are also more likely to grow up without opportunity and employment.