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I am adopting my daughter from the foster care system. She is two years old. I know that when the adoption is consumated, I will get a new birth certificate for her, with myself listed as the mother. But as I am not married, and not adopting her with anyone else, I have no idea what they will put under "father". I am not comfortable with them putting "unknown", because I don't want everyone who ever sees her birth certificate to think that her mother slept around so much, she couldn't figure out who the child's father is. Are there other options? Should I list my brother (gross thought if you think about it, I know), who will take custody of her if something ever happens to me? Then he won't have to adopt her himself.
If you have ALREADY CONSUMATED a single-parent adoption, please reply and let me know what they did on the birth certificate in your case.
THANKS!!
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I don't have my daughter's new birth certificate yet, but I am pretty sure I requested that it be blank....We shall see. My sister will take care of my daughter should anything happen to me. I had to have somebody designated before I could finalize.
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On both of my son's birth certificates, the father section is left blank. There is not a special designation, nor is the word "unknown" utilized.
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Thanks!
That's exactly what I wanted to know.
I also welcome answers from anyone else who has had this experience.
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One more thing....among the many pre-adoption papers I filled out was an Amended Birth Certificate Application. I completed the information as I saw fit. That is why the father section is blank, rather than carrying an "unknown" designation.
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I have adopted 3 children all were born in different states. In Virginia and Missouri the area is left blank. In Maryland it states none stated and there is not any way to get that off unless the child is readopted if I ever got married. At least that is what I have been told and in five years it really has not been a problem. If asked in a nice way my kids or I usually says that they were adopted and their birthparents could not take care of them.
It is so awsome to have the new papers and not to have to go through the whole deal of no, those people have no legal rights to the child, etc...
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