According to news reports, Jandre refused to call his mother's lesbian lover "daddy" – and subsequently paid with his life for it. Evidence showed that he had sustained horrific injuries, including a fractured skull, brain damage, two broken legs, a broken collarbone, broken hands and pelvis. Prof. Mohammed Dada, a trauma expert, likened the injuries sustained by Jandre as to that of a person that had fallen from a double storey building. But Hanelie Botha, Jandre’s mother, and her lesbian partner claimed that he had slipped in the bath.

Cases of child abuse at the hand of lesbian couples are by no means unusual although few are extreme as this. There is a substantial amount of scientific evidence to show that there is a significantly higher amount of violence within lesbian relationships. A higher incidence of child abuse is also reported amongst these relationships.

We believe this tragedy is a wake up call to the South African society that the homosexual relationship is (as always was) abnormal and the potential consequences do not only concern the people involved but society at large. Jandre at the age of four was able to discern that his mothers’ lesbian lover could not replace the father figure in his life. In December 2005 the Constitutional Court referred the issue of Same Sex Marriages to Parliament. DFL appeals to Parliament to come to the same conclusion as little Jandre and take the interests of society and especially children into account when deciding on this contentious issue.

Other related issues which DFL is involved with are:
Homosexuality
Prositution
Pornography
Pedophilia
Home Based Care
Preventing AIDS
Health in Industry
AIDS information
Sexual Addiction