{"id":41323,"date":"2022-02-03T13:41:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T04:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/03\/japan-to-reform-19th-century-law-that-puts-ex-husband-on-childs-birth-certificate"},"modified":"2022-02-03T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T04:41:54","slug":"japan-to-reform-19th-century-law-that-puts-ex-husband-on-childs-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41323","title":{"rendered":"Japan to reform 19th century law that puts ex-husband on child\u2019s birth certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Automatic addition of ex-husband as father on document within 300 days of divorce to be scrapped <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Japan is set to reform a 19th century law that automatically registers a woman\u2019s ex-husband as the father of a child born within 300 days of their divorce.<\/p>\n<p>A government panel this week recommended amending the rule, along with another clause in the law that prevents women from remarrying for 100 days after a divorce on the grounds that the paternity of a child born soon after would be unclear.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/03\/japan-to-reform-19th-century-law-that-puts-ex-husband-on-childs-birth-certificate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automatic addition of ex-husband as father on document within 300 days of divorce to be scrapped Japan is set to reform a 19th century law that automatically registers a woman\u2019s ex-husband as the father of a child born within 300 days of their divorce&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,1539,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-reproductive-rights","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41324,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41323\/revisions\/41324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}