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Kenyan woman fights to have children take fathers' names

Questions about what children born out of wedlock should expect from their fathers have arisen in a lawsuit.

The woman, who has sued the Attorney General and the Registrar of Births and Deaths, is seeking to have men forced to have their names on the birth certificates of all the children they sire.

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