But even children born to single mothers usually have a father listed on the birth certificate. Probably only a small percentage list “unknown”.
NBC doesn’t mean that the parents have to be legally married. AFAIK.
“NBC doesn’t mean that the parents have to be legally married. AFAIK.”
I don't pretend to know how SCOTUS would rule on this, but what we do know is that George Washington inserted the NBC clause immediately after the John Jay letter advising to protect against foreign influence.
A father of an illegitimate child cannot pass the most dangerous foreign influence of dual citizenship to the child even if he acknowledges the child and even if the father appears on the BC.
In Obama’s case the 1948 BNA explicitly excludes passing UK citizenship to illegitimate children (presumably of bigamous marriage) even if acknowledged on the BC.
The founders were explicit on the point that if the parents were married citizenship passed to the child from the father, and if unmarried then citizenship came only the mother.
Our society and attitudes have evolved extensively but there have been few amendments to the constitution and limited new case law. McCain, Obama, Jindal, Goldwater and George Romney all have presented NBC issues that SCOTUS has never addressed directly.
You must not watch Maury or Jerry Springer or the other daytime trash tv shows.
NBC doesn’t mean that the parents have to be legally married.
You have a point.