Mothers' names should be on Birth Certficates as well as fathers.

Because this is an issue that effects all women but especially those who have a son but no partner. If they want a passport for their children it has to be in its father's name and they have to give permission before the passport is issued.
My daughter had changed her son's name by Deed Poll, to eradicate all suggestion of his father and the Passport Office won't accept it until he is 18.
Nevertheless she was told by Social Services that she must move from Essex because the police were investigating his father.