If you are a parent with parental responsibility you have the legal responsibility for the safety, well being and upbringing of your child.
Parental responsibility requires that you make certain decisions including how your child is educated and also how your child receives medical attention in the event of illness. You are also required to ensure that your child receives the best possible care within your family unit.
Who has Parental Responsibility?
The mother of any child or children has parental responsibility for them automatically
If the parents are married then there is joint parental responsibility where both parents have a say in how their children are brought up and in all other decisions relating to education, medical treatment etc.
However if the mother is unmarried she has sole parental responsibility. Therefore she is the only one of the parents responsible for the decisions relating to her children’s upbringing…unless
If you are named as father on the child’s birth certificate, and the child was born after 1st December 2003, you do have parental responsibility too. However, if your child was born prior to 1st December 2003 then you must take legal steps to get parental responsibilty.
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