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Re:Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds by regularfry on Sunday July 19, 2026 @01:57AM (#48965367)
Backwards. The government knows who has kids because they do things like issue birth certificates and operate state schools. In a lot of places it's legally very difficult not to be listed as a parent on government records.

So why should I have to prove I don't have kids when the government can know I'm not on any of those lists?

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Re:Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds by manwe150 on Sunday July 19, 2026 @06:54AM (#48966833)
The government departments know those things because the parents registered on those lists. It doesn’t automatically just “know”, and that info is historically not usually shared between government departments
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Re:Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds by regularfry on Sunday July 19, 2026 @02:48PM (#48970697)
That doesn't make the burden of proof magically mine.
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