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Allow a child to have their unmarried parents name on their birth certificate.

Submitted on Monday 6th March 2017

Rejected on Monday 20th March 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Allow a child to have their unmarried parents name on their birth certificate.

Petition Details

A woman took her daughter to be registered today! However after an unexpected death of her dad he never knew of her existence and will never meet her and as unmarried bereaved spouses her daughter is not allowed to have her biological father on her birth certificate.

Additional Information

This has always been the case of unmarried bearaved spouses but should this child suffer anymore than she has too?


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

Please note that this petition has already been accepted and can be found here:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/189018

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