Did you know that a world-record-breaking near-two thirds of South African children grow up in homes without fathers, and that our country has the distinction of having one of the highest global rates of single motherhood? According to research conducted in the past five years by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the South African Race Relations Institute (SARRI), 60 percent of SA children have absent fathers, and more than 40 percent of South African mothers are single parents, compared with 25 percent in the US and a developed world average of just 15 percent.

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