True or False: Unmarried
fathers have automatic
Parental Responsibility?
"False: Only if they are named on the child or young
person's birth certificate.
The following people have automatic Parental
Responsibility for a child
• Mother of the child
• Mother's husband (if married at time if child's birth)
• Unmarried father if named on the birth certificate
• Unmarried father who subsequently marries mother, if
name already on birth certificate