LGBTQ+ parents are being removed from their children’s birth certificates in Italy

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LGBTQ+ parents are being removed from their children’s birth certificates in Italy – here’s what’s behind this disturbing trend
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Maybe I’m against the grain here but shouldn’t biological parents be on the birth certificate?

If they cared about that, they would make a law that forces all newborns and their 'parents' to submit to a DNA test before issuing a certificate. This is just being done to make it harder for LGBTQ+ parents to have the same rights and responsibilities as straight parents. Not being named on your kid's birth certificate makes things so much harder when dealing with government programs and even enrolling in school or taking them to the doctor.

Mine does not, it shows my parents who have legal custody over me, they are not lgbtq+. That is what a birth cert shows, the people who have legal custody and responsibility for you.

I imagine you think this because of medical things (heredity and all that) AFAIK It isn't used for such things, only for legal responsibility (adoption for instance would modify it), so in order to protect the position of those who actually raise the kid and the stability of their family, I don't agree with you. Not without changing the role of the birth certificate first at least

They definitely should.

mah, their parents should be on there.

On a BIRTH certificate? No! That will only lead to a lot of problems in the future for the unlucky kid. Imagine kid's bio parents have some hereditary disease and without them on a BIRTH certificate doctors will never know. No. Just no.

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