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Birth Certificates:
Unknown Parents
LaShonda Williams
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IntroductionHistory
Background
Birth Certificate
Question
Emotions
Imagination
Search
Surrender
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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
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History
Cardinal Ximenes
Civil Registration1563 – Roman Catholic Church 1837 thru 1874 – England & Wales1855 – Scotland1864 - Ireland
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What is the Purpose of Birth Certificate?
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• Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)’s Purpose
– Maternal and infant mortality
• Protect health of mothers and infants
– Create a federal birth registry
Continued…
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Why “unknown” on the birth certificate?
Breakdown of relationships
Inability Violence
Unwillingness to have child
Financial issues
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Loss Grief AbandonmentLow Self-
esteem
Lost Identity
Emotions
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• Robert Jameson
– Realistic vs. unrealistic
• What do biological parents look like?
• Lifestyles is like
Imagination:Realistic or Unrealistic
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• 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
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• Not know much about families members
• Don’t want to meet their biological parents.
Surrender
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Look at their beautiful smilesThey want to have a family together!
Think of their son as first priority
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