• deegeese
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    1 year ago

    I thought birth certificates ALWAYS had only biological parents because it’s a medical document and has nothing to do with custody and guardianship?

    • Fuck Yankies@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      That’s correct most places that understand judicial presedence, just not in countries run by idiots.

    • sibloure@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Not during adoptions either. The birth certificate has no mention of biological parents at least in the U.S. It’s more of a legal document than medical document.

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        That logic would at least be pretty straightforward; mark the unknown parent as unknown.

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      A birth certificate is a record that you were born, but not necessarily who your parents are. Usually, if a mom is married to someone who’s not the bio-dad when they have a baby, the spouse gets listed on the birth certificate. You also see non-bio parents on birth certificates in the case of adoption.