A young woman who kept two pregnancies secret and gave birth at home was afraid to speak up in part due to her conservative Chinese background.
When aged 19, the woman gave birth to a girl in 2011 in Sydney’s south.
At the time, the woman and child’s father were in Australia on student visas.
In 2019 the woman gave birth to a boy, delivering him at their south-west Sydney home, again having received no natal care.
Because the children were not born in hospital and their births were never declared, both grew up without any official recognition or documentation.
On Friday, a tribunal ordered the children be issued NSW birth certificates, overturning a refusal by the Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages.
