“…Furthermore, the literature asserts that the majority of youthful sexual offenders come from singleparent families, with the most prominent being female-headed households (Becker, CunninghamRathner & Kaplan, 1986; Loeber & Dishion as cited in Graves et al, 1996;Nanjundappa, De Rios, Mio & Verleur, 1987;Tingle, Barnard, Robbins, Newman & Hutchinson, 1986;Wedge, Boswell & Dissel, 2000). This finding was borne out only partially in the study, where more than half of the mothers (28 or 56%) consulted were de facto heads of their households.…”