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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Ndaba Gaolathe
Gaolatlhe o buile se, jaaka a ne a amogana maikuelo a, le batsena phuthegokgolo, a bolela fa banni ba mafelo a asatswang go a etela, ba ne ba mo nankolela gore ba setse ba feletswe ke tshepho mo botshelong, ka ntata ya ditsholofetso tsa ga domkrag tse di sa diragadiweng.
Gaolathe a re, banni ba lela thata ka go tlhoka ditlhabololo tse ba reng e setse ele dingwaga ba sa di bone. O buile a sa kgale lethe gore puso ya ga domkrag ga e a tshwanela go rontsha batho kgotsa go ba amoga boitumelo ka se se felela jaanong se ba tlhokisa tshepho mo go sepe fela.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...