A person’s knowledge of their genetic identity is a human right

It’s an insult to give children a birth certificate which records two parents who can’t have physically engendered them, writes Victoria White

WHEN I did an internet search for the Government’s move to draft laws to retrospectively register same sex couples as parents on birth certificates I found Leo Varadkar’s “dark chapter” in the country’s history; the registering of adoptive couples as biological parents on the birth certificates of children adopted from St Patrick’s Guild.

Imagine falsifying a birth certificate — those nuns, they would stop at nothing, it seems, to expunge from the record of children the “shameful” names of their real parents in favour of parents of which they approved.