the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has held that single mothers need not disclose the name of the child's father at the time of registering the child's birth.
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a single mother applies for a birth certificate for a child who is born from her womb, the authorities can ask her to furnish an affidavit and then, issue a certificate, unless there is a court direction to the contrary.
2. The confidentiality of the donor (in this case, the child was born with the help of a semen donor) requires to be protected. This is important for single mothers who choose to conceive through an intrauterine fertility treatment.
3. It is the State’s responsibility to ensure that no citizen suffers any inconvenience or disadvantage merely because the parents fail or neglect to register the birth.
4. As the concerned child has been born through an intrauterine fertility treatment and from the woman’s womb, it follows that the authorities cannot insist on disclosure of the father’s name.