Birth Certificates:

Unknown Parents

LaShonda Williams

IntroductionHistory

Background

Birth Certificate

Question

Emotions

Imagination

Search

Surrender

Background

• Essential:

– Unknown parents (either biological mother or father) on the birth

certificate.

– Reasons WHY “unknown” is recorded on birth certificate

• Goal:

– Change from negative to positive

– Good influence

History

Cardinal Ximenes

Civil Registration1563 – Roman Catholic Church 1837 thru 1874 – England & Wales1855 – Scotland1864 - Ireland

What is the Purpose of Birth Certificate?

• Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)’s Purpose

– Maternal and infant mortality

• Protect health of mothers and infants

– Create a federal birth registry

Continued…

Why “unknown” on the birth certificate?

Breakdown of relationships

Inability Violence

Unwillingness to have child

Financial issues

Loss Grief AbandonmentLow Self-

esteem

Lost Identity

Emotions

• Robert Jameson

– Realistic vs. unrealistic

• What do biological parents look like?

• Lifestyles is like

Imagination:Realistic or Unrealistic

• Might encourage child to search

• Adoption—search for real parents

– Adoptive parents worry about abandonment

• Biological parents may also search children.

• Ages vary when searching

Search

• Not know much about families members

• Don’t want to meet their biological parents.

Surrender

Look at their beautiful smilesThey want to have a family together!

Think of their son as first priority

References

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