[aruanan]

I suppose that the Congress that passed this law thought a very young American mother who went abroad with an alien father to have a child was not suffieciently connected to the US to have her child be an American by birth.

You've made an error. This law doesn't have anything to do with a mother versus a father. It's about the citizenship of a child who has only one parent that is an American citizen at the time of his birth outside the United States.

[justiceseeker93]

This law doesn't have anything to do with a mother versus a father. It's about the citizenship of a child who has only one parent that is an American citizen the time of his birth outside the United States.

Yes, I was very well aware of that. The law treats the parents according to their citizenship or lack thereof, and doesn't discriminate on the basis of gender.

The reason why I commented the way I did is because I was responding to Mariebl's comment (or question) referring to the case of a native-born American mother.