The Prosecutor’s Office of Padova (Italy) has asked a local court to remove any same-sex non-biological parent on birth certificates, denying same-sex families the right to State recognition.
That’s not the case in many places. Lots of children are born whose fathers are unknown or whose mothers are married to someone who isn’t the father - that information is often used instead. In some jurisdictions, the spouse of the mother is automatically considered the father by law.
In the US, specifically, there are many cases of men being falsely named as fathers on a birth certificate so that a mother can collect child support from a more preferable person (for example, they have a better-paying job, so the calculated payment will be higher) than the actual father.
That’s not the case in many places. Lots of children are born whose fathers are unknown or whose mothers are married to someone who isn’t the father - that information is often used instead. In some jurisdictions, the spouse of the mother is automatically considered the father by law.
In the US, specifically, there are many cases of men being falsely named as fathers on a birth certificate so that a mother can collect child support from a more preferable person (for example, they have a better-paying job, so the calculated payment will be higher) than the actual father.