Petition Make it a legal requirement that dads are automatically on a birth certificate

I want it to become a legal requirement that fathers are automatically named on birth certificates.

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This would mean fathers are recognised as having parental responsibility.

Mothers can refuse to list a father on the birth certificate, or put the wrong father on the birth certificate, preventing a father from being recognised.

This needs to change. Fathers deserve to have the rights to help grow, protect and love their own child.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

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Date closed 3 February 2021
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