Petition for Equality & Respect for mums travelling solo with kids

[CHBailey]

I am sharing a petition re adding parents' names to UK child passports advocating for more equality and respect for mums travelling solo with their children, especially those with different surnames to their children.

I frequently travel solo with my children who carry different surnames to mine in their passports. I get stopped each time we pass through UK immigration and I am asked to prove I am their mother. My children have often been subjected to a barrage of insensitive questions from a young age. This regularly happens to families traveling with a solo parent but most often to women and the result is unnecessary hurdles, confusion, and a feeling of degradation. It's a scenario many face, and it's far from the standard of equality we strive for.

I am petitioning the UK government to apply a simple fix to children’s passports, which already happens in other forward-thinking countries, for the parents' names & information to be printed in their children's passports. All immigration would need to do is cross-check the child and parent passport.

This simple change will uphold the dignity of all parents travelling solo with their children (especially women) regardless of surname differences.

I would be very grateful for any support. 

Petition Link -  https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/653125

[Thelnebriati]

This seems like a simple fix that might also help guard against child trafficking.