{"id":132448,"date":"2021-09-08T20:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=132448"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T12:26:36","slug":"mother-of-all-forms-many-official-documents-still-dont-allow-mothers-name-to-be-a-standalone-marker-of-parentage-change-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mother-of-all-forms-many-official-documents-still-dont-allow-mothers-name-to-be-a-standalone-marker-of-parentage-change-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of all forms: Many official documents still don\u2019t allow mother\u2019s name to be a standalone marker of parentage. Change this"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Madras High Court is hearing a PIL seeking revision of all official documents that recognise only the father\u2019s name, and offer no space for the mother\u2019s name. During the case, the Madras HC issued a notice to both central and state governments and demanded explanations.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Non-compliance in previous instances<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>In 2015, the <strong>Supreme Court<\/strong> directed the <strong>municipal bodies<\/strong> to <strong>not insist on a father\u2019s name<\/strong> for issuing birth certificates. But many municipal bodies still do not comply with that.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the <strong>education department<\/strong> has issued various <strong>circulars that a father\u2019s name is not necessary to avail school admissions<\/strong>. But that too is not followed in practice.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Issues associated with not mentioning the mother&#8217;s name in the official documents<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Promotes Patriarchy<\/strong>: A mother is often the primary caretaker. When a child grows up, seeing her name missing from the official papers will infuse the patriarchal mindset in the children. It creates a notion that a <strong>mother is secondary to the father in the home<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, including the mother&#8217;s name in the official document is a much-needed reform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Mother of all forms: Many official documents still don\u2019t allow mother\u2019s name to be a standalone marker of parentage. Change this<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>8th September 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? Madras High Court is hearing a PIL seeking revision of all official documents that recognise only the father\u2019s name, and offer no space for the mother\u2019s name. During the case, the Madras HC issued a notice to both central and state governments and demanded explanations. Non-compliance in previous instances In 2015,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mother-of-all-forms-many-official-documents-still-dont-allow-mothers-name-to-be-a-standalone-marker-of-parentage-change-this\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mother of all forms: Many official documents still don\u2019t allow mother\u2019s name to be a standalone marker of parentage. Change this<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965],"tags":[9610,349,8838],"class_list":["post-132448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","tag-patriarchy","tag-women-empowerment","tag-women-related-issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700780938,"cached_date":1704869993},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}