[jeffc]

To prove their actual age. You don’t want 17 year olds playing against 13 year olds.

I can understand about Little League and such, but I don't know many 13 year olds in high school, and that is what the article was about.
Besides, you have to provide a BC to enroll your child in school to start with. I can't remember if you have to submit one (that they keep), or just show one.

1) For school, why can't they just look up the one they have instead of you having to provide, in essence, another one? What did the school do with the first one? How many Certified copies of BCs do people have floating around?

2) For extra-curricular events, what do these people do with the BC (if they keep them)?

These are questions I would need answered before I would get them one.

[reasonisfaith]

If you have that many questions about kids needing to have their birth certificates, I’d like to see how many questions you have regarding the obligation of presidential candidates to produce a birth certificate.