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Parental Responsibility is the legal term used to describe all the rights and duties that parents (and sometimes other people) have towards their children. For example it gives you the right to agree to medical treatment for your child or to choose the school they attend.
When a child is born the mother automatically has Parental Responsibility.
So does the father if, he is married to the mother when the child is born or he is registered as the father on the baby’s birth certificate (for children born after the 1st December 2003). However, later in the child’s life the unmarried father of the child can get Parental Responsibility by:
