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Scenario

How bureaucratic assumptions about family structure add insult to injury

Every form asks for my father's information and I have to keep writing that I do not know because he left when I was three.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Administrative forms that presuppose stable family systems force repeated acknowledgment of abandonment and loss.

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