The second State of South Africa’s Fathers' (SOSAF 2021) Report will be launched on 18 November 2021.

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** The State of South Africa’s Fathers Report 2021 highlights positive father involvement in South Africa
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** For Immediate Release
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The second State of South Africa’s Fathers' (SOSAF 2021) Report will be launched on 18 November 2021.

SOSAF 2021 is produced by a group of authors, including academics from different universities, practitioners from various organisations, postgraduate students, and young people writing about their own fathers, led by Wessel van den Berg of Sonke Gender Justice, Tawanda Makusha of the Human Sciences Research Council, and Kopano Ratele of Stellenbosch University.

SOSAF 2021 is the second edition of reports on fatherhood in the country. SOSAF 2018 established a reference point for further research and advocacy related to fatherhood. The SOSAF reports offer rational, well-informed, and factual countermeasures to policy decision-making and development driven by vested interests.

The reports further act as a xxxxxx against uninformed and false narratives about fathers and fatherhood. The reports are envisaged as a central plank of multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary, longitudinal and cross-sectional, large and small, quantitative and qualitative studies aimed to support and produce a long-term monitoring and tracking mechanism for changes in fatherhood.

The SOSAF 2021 report includes the findings of the first-ever, specially dedicated and largest survey conducted on fathers and fatherhood in South Africa. The SOSAF 2021 survey on the state of fathers and fatherhood in South Africa was commissioned by the SOSAF project team and conducted by an international research company. The survey covered a sample of 1,003 men from all the provinces of the country, who have biological children or act in the capacity of fathers for children. The main survey goal was to get insights into a range of attitudes and practices related to the lives of fathers and the current state of fatherhood in the country.

SOSAF 2021 is the latest contribution to the vision planted in SOSAF 2018. That vision is to cultivate increased, positive involvement of men in their own children’s lives so that every child has nurturing, nonviolent, and engaged adult men around them. From inception, the hope that has underpinned the SOSAF project has been to connect research insights, effective programme-implementation, policy choices, and advocacy toward involved fatherhood.

The long-term vision of the SOSAF project is to facilitate heightened awareness, state policies and programmes, public engagement and psychosocially beneficial change concerning men as fathers and would-be fathers. The SOSAF 2021 report is intended to support men’s contribution to gender equal and non-violent parenting.

UNICEF SA and Sonke have been working with the Department of Social Development and other partners to strengthen fathers and other male caregivers' involvement in the care and protection of children in South Africa, including through the implementation of the MenCare South Africa, and MenCare 50:50 projects.

The report is affiliated with the MenCare Global Fatherhood campaign, and complements the State of the World’s Fathers reports produced by Promundo for the MenCare Global Fatherhood Campaign. SOSAF 2021 was made possible with the generous support of DG Murray Trust, Oak Foundation, and UNICEF SA.


** Report key findings
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* In the HSRC South Africa Social Attitude Survey of 2019, 86% of women and men agreed that paid leave should be given to fathers of new born children if both parents work full time.
* Most children in South Africa live with men, and the number of men who live in extended family households that include children increased during Covid from 48% to 61%.
* Two thirds of survey respondents who are not the child’s biological father, but care for the child, did homework with the children they care for.
* 73% of respondents agreed that it is appropriate for men to be pre-school teachers.
* 77% of respondents agreed that men are as good caregivers as women

SOSAF SUMMARY ([link removed])
Full report will be available for downloading November 18, 2021, 10:00 CAT.
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Media queries can be sent to:

Given Sigauqwe

[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Contact nr: 0739882870

Direct respondents on the report are:

Name

Organization

Topic / Focus

Contact details

Wessel van den Berg

(Editor)

Sonke Gender Justice

Overarching comments on the report

[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Kopano Ratele

(Editor)

Stellenbosch

University

Overarching comments on the report

Fathers and Violence in SA


[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])


Tawanda Makusha

(Editor)

HSRC

Overarching comments on the report

Mental Health of Fathers in SA


[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Elmien Lesch

(Author)

Stellenbosch

University

(Non-resident father-child relationships)

[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Elena Moore

(Author)

University of Cape Town

Kinship based fatherhood and the state

[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Malose Langa

(Author)

Wits University

Disrupting Stereotypical Notions of Fatherhood

[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Nothemba George

(Author)

Nothemba George

Attorneys

Legal issues regarding father-child contact

[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Razia Nordien-Lagardien

(Author)

Nelson Mandela University

Mediation and fathers

[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Lesley Gittings

(Author)

University of Cape Town and University of Toronto

Fatherhood and young men living with HIV

[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Oncemore Mbeve

(Author)

African Centre for Migration and Society,

Wits University

Migration and fatherhood

[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Mandisa Malinga

(Author)

University of Cape Town

Economic provision and fatherhood

[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

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