{"id":12841,"date":"2015-12-19T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=12841"},"modified":"2015-12-19T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T11:46:10","slug":"moms-sue-north-carolina-to-update-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2015\/12\/moms-sue-north-carolina-to-update-birth-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Moms sue North Carolina to update birth certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {   var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];   if (d.getElementById(id)) return;   js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;   js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";   fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pp121915.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pp121915-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"pp121915\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pp121915-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pp121915.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA same-sex couple is suing North Carolina to force officials to put both women&#8217;s names on their children&#8217;s birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says Melissa Weiss gave birth to both children after she wed Meredith &#8211; in Canada &#8211; in 2003. They say North Carolina only put her name on the certificates and hasn&#8217;t added Meredith Weiss. The lawsuit says same-sex spouses who had children after marriage became legal in North Carolina received two-parent certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The Weisses say they need accurate birth certificates for school, health care and financial reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Two state Department of Health and Human Services officials are named as defendants. The department issued a statement saying it hadn&#8217;t reviewed the lawsuit and couldn&#8217;t comment.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/d0f6c09766ca4cd4aef10ea6feb5a06f\/lesbian-parents-sue-n-carolina-update-birth-certificates\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=12841\" data-num-posts=\"10\" data-width=\"700\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A same-sex couple is suing North Carolina to force officials to put both women&#8217;s names on their children&#8217;s birth certificates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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