The thing about a birth certificate is that there's obviously no photo, so theoretically you could have somebody else's child and pass them off as yours by showing your own kid's birth certificate.
I read one story (take with a grain of salt since it was on a forum, not a news report) where a woman's crazy mother in law accosted her and her baby in a parking lot and when the cops came, the MIL claimed the baby was hers. The real mom had no documents, but she did have the camera roll on her phone, with hundreds of photos going back to the baby's birth that made it clear the child was hers. Maybe not a bad idea to make a photo compilation of yourself and each kid that shows that you and the kid(s) have always been together.
This is such a great point! I didn’t even think about how a birth certificate shows no photo. Thank you for sharing that story and making that photo compilation suggestion. I will do this as well.
You have me all paranoid now about flying to MT this summer, haha, but in a good way. When I flew with the kiddos before, I did take along copies of their BC's, and I already had the photo history idea, but I never thought of the letter from my spouse as yet another layer of protection. I'm going to have a whole arsenal of proof with me at this rate :)))
That’s awesome! We can never be too prepared! 😉
That is a great idea! I have a lot of pics of my kids, but I'm rarely in the pictures with them (at least on my phone). :) Something we need to work on!!!
I have to steal the Husband's phone in order to find pics of me with the kids, lol. He doesn't take very many (why do men never think of it?!) but at least there's occasional evidence that my children have a mother!
Nice! Ha! My husband takes pics of things like gears, parts that are needing to be replaced on the car, and stuff like that. He recently took his dad to a fun tourist place near us and I asked him to take pics. He took one of a plant and one of his dad's back while walking up a trail. Lol. This place is a total photo op at every turn. And he took them to hold sloths and monkeys...and took one pic of one brother holding a monkey...when four of them held both. Gotta laugh to keep from crying sometimes. Ha!!