• In 1996 an estimated 23 percent of children under 18 lived in homes without fathers. • A child whose mother is living in a de facto relationship, other than with the child's father, has been found to be at least five times more likely to be abused. • A growing number of sole parents receiving the Domestic Purposes Benefit – presently 16,000, or one in seven – will not or cannot name the father of their child.
favourably mentions cultural diversity, for example for freedom of religion or linguistic heritages