'Teen pregnancies, other social ills prevalent in fatherless homes' - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The Executive Director of the Family Policy Institute, Errol Naidoo, says broken family structures are the biggest contributors to the high number of

A significant number of teenagers under the age of 16 gave birth on Christmas and New Year’s Day, the youngest being a 12-year-old girl from the Eastern Cape. This has raised alarm and some men have been charged with statutory rape. Naidoo says this should be a wake-up call.“And you look at research all over the world, it shows you that children that grow up in fatherless homes without a father figure present, teen pregnancies, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, school dropouts are all prevalent in those homes.

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