(December 6, 2015 at 4:16 pm)Dystopia Wrote: On birth certificates and ID cards, where it says "mom/dad" it usually means biological parents, so there's no reason to put legal guardians - If I'm adopted by my grandma, or I am living with her most of the time, my ID card will still have my biological parents' name because that's what it says in the title - Of course, legal guardians are important, but usually the law never gives 100% similar rights to legal guardians compared to biological parents - For example, my GF is adopted and while her adoptive mom had many rights, she still needed permission from her biological dad to leave the country and go on vacation. Biological connection is legally never irrelevant, or it is irrelevant in little cases.
It's one thing to list "legal guardians", but that doesn't make you a biological parent, and from my experience most ID cards and similar documents, when saying "parents" mean biological parents merely, regardless of who takes care of you and if you like your parents or not. My GF hates her dad, but still has his name on her ID card. It's part of the legal process.
Maybe in Portugal, but here, for example, my parents' names have never been on any of my identification except my birth certificate. We also have a closed adoption system where adoptive parents or adoptees have no right to even know who their bio parents were.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
