Lesbian couple sign joint birth certificate

[onebatmother]

Proud moment for anyone interested in these kind of milestones.

And in this day and age, what does a bloody piece of paper prove?

So what I meant to add was shouldn't civil partners have the same assumption made?

[Although I can see the flaw in that thinking kinda practically but I am sure YKWIM ]

Bizarrely, when a woman has a baby, both her partner/husband and the father of the baby if it is someone else are allowed to take paternity leave - as is her lesbian partner if she has one

The rules for statutory paternity leave state "You must be taking the time off to support the mother or carer for the baby and intend to be fully involved in their upbringing." so it depends on the situation as to who that includes.

And that can be all three...it's been done and I know the person

but if a heterosexual couple went through ivf and had no choice but to use a sperm donor--it would be fair to have both parents on the birth certificate, wouldn't it? biological or not? how is that not exactly the same?

Anyone know if me and my partner can both go on the birth certificate?
Same sex relationship used a donor but not through a clinic we found a private donor that was not known to us.
He will have minimal contact just odd picture and when shes 18 he is happy for her to meet him.
We do have a signed agreement that he has given up all his rights.
We would both like to go on the birth cert but not sure if u have to be registered at a fert clinic for this or u can if u used a sperm donor?
Baby due in 2 weeks!!!

snucks - if you're in a civil partnership, yes you can!

We are a same-sex couple and had our baby six weeks ago and have both of us on the birth certificate.

I think its a great idea as it gives the child more security to have 2 legally recognised parents. Also straight couples using donor sperm have been able to put the husband down as the father even though he's not the bio parent, and I see this as no different.

We were only the second couple in our city to do this and the registrar had to phone someone to talk him through how to fill in the forms.

We are overjoyed that our baby gets the security of a legally recognised 2 parent family.

hmm, just read the article and it seems their baby was born a week after ours.

As we were already the second couple in our smallish county to do this, I'm really not sure this couple were the first to register a birth in this manner. Perhaps they were the firt the newspapers have picked up on?

So we are not civil partnered but do have the same last names.
Does this means i cant go on the birth certifacate?

I'm really sorry, but sadly not I'm afraid. You can only both go on the birth certificate if you're not in a civil partnership if you have gone through fertility procedures at a registered clinic and have signed certain official consent forms.

You have to be in a civil partnership at the time of the conception if you're doing "at home" insemination if you want to both be on the birth certificate.

Stonewall have produced an excellent leaflet outlining the legal stuff here www.stonewall.org.uk/at_home/parenting/3463.asp

My partner gave me her eggs and I gave birth a year ago. Are we not both biological parents? Do we not both deserve the right to be on the birth certificate?

As it turns out we think we were the first couple in the UK to have both mom's names on the birth certificate - however a week later they realised that I conceived two months too soon to meet the change in legislation, and were ever so helpful in getting the certificates back and making sure they were destroyed - all but one for our memories : ) ...

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I honestly believe people that are biological parents should be allowed on the birth certificate. I do think same sex couples should have rights the same as mixed couples but as there is no possibility of both being the biological parent being same sex then it's just not right.

My DH when DP could not register the births.

"I think a birth certificate should be a record of the child's birth parents"

Me too.

So yay! that this is what can now happen.

Only one person actually gives birth to a baby, but their spouse is also (rightly) registered as a parent, happily now regardless of gender/sexuality.

Your "biological" ancestry is a different issue and doesn't need to be recorded on the birth certificate.

If a woman used a donor egg, would you have the donor registered on the birth certificate as mother rather than the woman who carried, gave birth to, and planned to raise the child? Surely not.