South Africa: Dawn to Support New Laws Against Maintenance Defaulters

press release

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%.

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