Benefits for Dad • Your name can appear on your child’s birth certificate.

• It’s the first step toward protecting your legal connection to your child.

• It gives you the legal right to care for your child.

Benefits for Mom

• It establishes your child’s legal relationship with his or her father.

• It makes your child’s father legally responsible for his child.

• It is required before a court can be asked to order child support, custody or visitation.

• It helps your child become eligible for the father’s inheritance, medical benefits, Social Security, and possibly veteran dependent benefits.

Translation: "It's so you can maybe see your kid sometimes, dad", "it's so you can own him, mom".

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