It IS inheritance by blood...but it takes more than a mother to make a child, so the wholesale discounting of not only the citizenship of the father, but his very existence is patently ridiculous.
It IS inheritance by blood...but it takes more than a mother to make a child, so the wholesale discounting of not only the citizenship of the father, but his very existence is patently ridiculous.
Well of course it takes more than a mother to make a child. That's not the point. Using your phrasing, a child should "inherit by blood" their citizenship from their mother.
I would think that Common Law and Natural law would certainly recognize the close bond between mother and child.
Being "patently ridiculous" is to deny such a natural and commonly understood link.