Having parental responsibilities and rights entitles a parent to take major decisions relating to the child, such as on schooling, on where they live and on medical treatment.Joint registration takes place in cases where both the mother and the person acknowledging themselves to be the father have attended the registry office and signed the register together; where the mother produces a statutory declaration by the person acknowledging themselves to be the father and declares, in the prescribed form, that he is the father; or where the father produces a statutory declaration by the mother that he is the father and acknowledges himself to be the father in the prescribed form.