have big marks on them to show their parents were married when the kids were born?
I am a single mom and divorced. I am sick of people who assume I had my kids out of wedlock. I will not live with a man I'm not married to because I have morals so there is no man in my household. Why do I have to suffer because of stereotypes about single moms?
2007-08-04 17:47:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Some of you are right. Some of you are wrong. Schools see birth certificates but still there is problems with stereotyping there...The absence of a new husband for me and my kids is a good thing..... Birth certificates with just a maiden name for mother no longer un-stigmatize single moms but do cause problems for divorced moms sometimes.....We are no longer in the 50's, do all single moms have to be treated the same even when they have different reasons for being single?
2007-08-04 18:55:16 · update #1
You probably need to hang around with people that don't make assumptions about things that are none of their business in the first place.
2007-08-04 17:52:02 · answer #1 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Birth certificates are a good thing to have. But hey wanna hear a funny one. I was adoped. Heard that the natural father was a really blond hair and green eyes, guy from Germany and natural mother of mixed blood. No problem with either being what they are. Now, after I got married, kids came, two with blond hair, one dark brown, they other two light brownish hair. Two with blue eyes, one black they other brown. When I use to be asked if they had the same father, I would respond with, they all from the five brances of military men. Then they would respond with, huh huh huh, tongues hanging out of their mouths. The truth of the matter all my children are from my husband. Today no one asks.
I don't let it get to me to be stereotyped and I don't owe anyone and explantation. And neither should you.
What is important is that you and your husband and the kids know the truth.
2007-08-04 18:00:56 · answer #2 · answered by airlines charge for the seat. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How would putting big marks on birth certificates help those children who are born out-of-wedlock? I don't think it would be a very nice idea at all. Doesn't every newborn baby deserve the same chances in life? - What does it matter if their parents are married or not? I don't believe that it does. Who cares what small-minded people think? Those people can only make you feel bad if you let them. :-)
2007-08-04 18:11:25 · answer #3 · answered by Butterscotch 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because it is irrelevant. My original birth certificate was a photostatic copy of the original paper, which had a place to mark legitimate or illegitimate. But the county has since gone to a computerized system, and that information no longer appears. A person's identity has nothing to do with whether or not his parents were married.
2007-08-04 17:55:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not sure that matters at all, I don't show my daughter's birth certificate to people, the only one who has ever asked is when she was registered for school.
So - I don't think they need to know any of this, and I don't have a clue why they would questioning it.
2007-08-04 17:53:55 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ ♥Be Happi♥ ♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well would having it on the birth certificate really help things? it's not like the people that are judging you are going to be looking at your children's birth certificate...
2007-08-04 17:51:03 · answer #6 · answered by cupcake 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
so what would you do carry it on your shirt? why do you care what people think how old are you
2007-08-04 17:52:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋