NSW tribunal grants birth certificates to two home-born children of a Chinese woman who hid her pregnancies.

A New South Wales tribunal has granted birth certificates to two children born at home without medical care to a young Chinese woman in Sydney, who kept her pregnancies secret due to fear of social stigma and conservative cultural norms. The children, born in 2011 and 2019, lacked official documentation and faced challenges accessing education and healthcare. The couple's third child, born in a hospital, received a birth certificate.

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