Birthing and grieving at the same time is a trauma which “lasts a lifetime”, an MP has warned in her call to do away with the “ridiculous” bureaucracy which unmarried parents face.
Caroline Voaden described a “fight” which mothers go through to register their partners on birth certificates if their partners have died.
The MP for South Devon, who is a widow, told the Commons on Tuesday that registration relies on an “out-of-date law that penalises people for not being married”.
