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Court deals deadbeat fathers big blow

This could be the ultimate victory for single mothers and their children. Men will no longer have a say on whether their names should be included in the birth certificates of children they sired out of wedlock.

High Court judge Mumbi Ngugi ruled yesterday  that  section  12  of  Births  and  Deaths law, which gave the man the final say on whether his name should appear on a birth certificate, is against the Constitution and the right of a child to have a name.

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