Reply #102: My sisters back in the 40s weren't born in hospitals. They have birth certificates by affadavits

[Rozlee]

Back then in rural Texas, very few poor Hispanics went to hospitals. Many women, like my mother, gave birth at home with the assistance of local midwives or family members. If there was a complication, then they called a doctor. Back then, doctors made house calls and one would come over. I was a change-of-life-baby when my Mom gave birth to me when she was almost 50 in the late 50s. I'm the only one that has a doctor's signature on my b.c. from a hospital birth. If my sisters were stopped with their b.c. in Arizona, what would a bigot cop think if he didn't see a doc's signature on it? All they had were "Witnesses to Birth" when a family member would go to the post office to request the birth certificate. I'm sure they probably have the same kind of things for people that were born in poor Latino rural areas in Arizona before Hospital births became the norm for Hispanics. Then what? Is a birth certificate like that valid?