A Not So Happy Father’s Day
As I walk down the streets of Swaziland, there is an obvious absence of fathers.
There are babies everywhere I look.
Infants are being taken care of by three year olds.
Teenage boys living on the street, with no father figure.
Twelve year old girls pregnant… abandoned.
There is an oppression that I can hardly put into words.
Grandmas take in children off the streets.
Mothers taking care of dozens of children.
This country is in survival mode.
Men are manly enough to make babies…
but not manly enough to stick around.
I often ask the children who they live with…
trying to...