The Tender For Law

Volume 10

May 06, 2015 2:11 PM

Eamonn O Brien

Friend of mine is wondering why the mother of a child has an automatic legal status as guardian and the unmarried father needs to submit a declaration, to be affirmed by the mother, in order to be legally recognised as the father...

Is it simply because she spent 9 months carrying the child and the father spent 2 minutes "making" it?

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