It was shown by research in Civil Registry offices in the country that, in the first 7 months of 2022, about 100,717 children had their records made without using the father's name. This year, the lowest number of births since 2016 was also recorded, with a total of more than 1 million newborns. In short, in the records of 6.5% of newborns in Brazil, only the mother's name appears.
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This percentage was higher than that recorded last year, 6%, in which 96,282 children of more than 1.5 million newborns did not have their father registered at the time. In the year 2020, there were around 1,581,404 births and 92,092 parents who did not give their names to register their children.
There is a portal, called Portal da Transparência do Registro Civil, where it can be consulted, in the “Absent Parents” page, the number of newborn children who do not have a father registered in the document.
The president of Arpen-Brasil, Gustavo Renato Fiscarelli, highlights how important it is to register a newborn child. “This procedure of registering newborns has received a lot of encouragement due to the permanent programs to encourage the act and actions, as well as the joint efforts carried out to be able to recognize paternity with the collaboration of general justice departments”, he said.
To get an idea, since 2012, the way to recognize paternity can be done directly at any of the Civil Registry Offices. Because of this, it is no longer necessary to have a court decision in cases where all parties mutually agree.
If, by chance, the initiative comes from the father himself, he only needs to go to the registry office with a copy of the certificate of birth of the child, where the consent of the mother or the child itself is mandatory, if the child is over 15 years of age. age.
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