Victory at last! How we won the campaign to put mothers' names on marriage certificates

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Victory at last! How we won the campaign to put mothers' names on marriage certificates
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Like many people, I hadn’t looked at my marriage certificate since I wed my husband David in 2001.

Like many people, I hadn’t looked at my marriage certificate since I wed my husband David in 2001. Back then I was 25 and unsurprisingly, more focused on the ceremony than the legal paperwork. It was 12 years later that I got the certificate out again. I needed it to change my name; when I married, I’d given up my maiden name Burkimsher to take his surname of Sadler. But after giving birth to our son, Elliot, I wanted to include both our surnames.

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