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Lies single mums tell when explaining absent fathers

In most cases after separation or divorce, women, are given primary custody of young children. That their fathers, unlike their neighbours’, don’t live with them always raises eyes brows among children. And as we have discovered, explaining to children the absence of a father is a big dilemma that many single mothers grapple with almost daily. In fact, it has been noted that a good number of women who are raising children by themselves have absolutely no clue how to explain the absentee fathers, and how they go about it, as it seems, can make for great comedy.

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