Mothers' names should be on marriage certificates alongside fathers' names.
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Mothers' names should be on marriage certificates alongside fathers' names.
This petition made change with 70,066 supporters!
Ailsa Burkimsher Sadler started this petition to Theresa May MP (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party) and
In England & Wales mothers' names are not on marriage certificates.
This is not fair.
This is 2014.
Marriage should not be seen as a business transaction between the father of the bride and the father of the groom.
This seemingly small inequality is part of a much wider pattern of inequality.
Women are routinely silenced and written out of history.
There is space for the name of the father of the bride and the father of the groom and their occupations. On civil partnership certificates there is space for mothers. On Scottish and Northern Irish marriage certificates there are spaces for mothers.
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