Illegitimate vs out of wedlock = Difference?

[sjh0006]

My daughter had a son 7 years ago through a relationship with a friend. They did not get married nor does the "father" have any rights or contact. Which Classification do I use and how to I enter him so that it does not appear that he is a child of my daughter's new husband? And, as a father who wishes to be complete, accurate in utterly subjective in creating her family tree, is there a way to make "mention" of this person without it being available on the printed charts?

[KirkS]

I have some adopted kids in my tree. If the birth parents are truly out of the picture, I don't include them in my database and just put the children in the adoptive parents family. Other people insist I am committing heresy by doing so :-)

You have a lot of options on how you want to handle this. If you haven't already, open Help -> Contents and search for 'Child Status'

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[sjh0006]

Thanks Kirk. I did look at them but none seem to fit. I guess I COULD list him as adopted in hope that my daughter's new hubby has intentions to do that. Special conjures a "handicap" as opposed to "different circumstances". Maybe there should be an "Other" option to provide details.

[Bob White]

Thanks Kirk. I did look at them but none seem to fit. I guess I COULD list him as adopted in hope that my daughter's new hubby has intentions to do that. Special conjures a "handicap" as opposed to "different circumstances". Maybe there should be an "Other" option to provide details.

It is possible to create your own status. Open the manual and do a find on "child status" which will take you to that help section and includes information about creating a status.

[eric.vanbeest]

As Bob has mentioned, you can add your own 'Child Status' types. I have added several 'Child Status' types as the ones Reunion supplies by default are verrry limited.

I have tons of people in my tree who were born before their parents were married. Whereas they were previously illegitimate, the wedding of their parent legitimised their being. Child status: Legitimised. Being born (in Holland) did not automatically mean that you had rights from your parents; if they - the mother and/or the father - did not acknowledge you, you could not claim their inheritance, for example, or gain their permission to marry. Bizarre, I know. Many children had to get their mother or parents to acknowledge their being separately.

I also find that many Child Statuses can overlap, and although I did not want to go overboard, I have added a clutch of useful (for me) Statuses: Twin/Stillborn, Twin/Died as Child, Twin/Died as Infant, Adopted Twin, etc.

Who has jurisdiction over a child born out of wedlock cq. registered partnership depends on the prevailing law. In many cases, the rights reserve to the mother. One could create a status 'Out of Wedlock/To Mother' to indicate that the mother is the parent with authority.

[kam]

I know I'm late to reply to this topic, but in case it may be helpful:
You could add your grandson's father as a new spouse, add the grandson as a child of that couple, and then use Privacy and/or Sensitivity marking to hide the father's information from reports and charts. You can find directions in the Reunion manual for both Privacy and Sensitivity Settings.
1. Choose Reunion > Settings
2. Click Privacy & Sensitivity

Sensitivity is for excluding text in any note or memo field by using a chosen "data delimiter" (such as brackets or other symbols in the drop down menu). Using Sensitivity that way, you might not show his actual name as the father, and then have a note in the note field with whatever you wish, contained within the selected Sensitivity data delimiter. This can also be used for Child statuses, or Multimedia items that you wish to have as Sensitive.

The Reunion manual page for the above has this table:
"The following table provides a guide to choosing the correct feature to accomplish your goal."

protect the identity of certain people	privacy
avoid the disclosure of personal details for certain people (such as of living people)	privacy
omit people or branches of people from reports	marking
omit certain text from note fields	sensitivity
omit certain child statuses from reports	sensitivity
omit certain multimedia items from reports	sensitivity
omit certain fields (for everybody in a report or chart)	report layouts