• 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.
negative towards traditional morality, for example against religious moral values, for divorce or abortion, for modern families or separation of church and state