Posted on Feb 21, 2019
Are ID Cards necessary for kids under 10 if they are in a single-parent or dual-military family?
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Edit: Thank you for the responses from people who have been single parents while on active duty. I just wanted to see some clarification or anyone else who had dealt with it.
I just read this in AR 600-20: Note. AR 600–8–14 directs that ID cards will be issued for children under age 10 who reside with a single parent or dual military
couple.
Now it's apparently an AFI that covers all services and in that it states:
Qualified dependents under age 10 if:
The child does not reside in the household of an eligible adult ID card holder (permanently or temporarily).
The child is of a joint service married couple.
The child is a child of a single parent.
The child’s physical appearance warrants issue (i.e., child looks over 10 years old).
So she resides with me and I am an eligible adult ID card holder but I'm a single parent. Does my daughter need an ID card? She's 4 - it kind of makes sense I guess for single soldiers. I suppose such as when my parents come to stay with her when I have to go somewhere it would. I just haven't been told that nor ever heard it. I always heard no ID cards needed for dependents under 10.
I just read this in AR 600-20: Note. AR 600–8–14 directs that ID cards will be issued for children under age 10 who reside with a single parent or dual military
couple.
Now it's apparently an AFI that covers all services and in that it states:
Qualified dependents under age 10 if:
The child does not reside in the household of an eligible adult ID card holder (permanently or temporarily).
The child is of a joint service married couple.
The child is a child of a single parent.
The child’s physical appearance warrants issue (i.e., child looks over 10 years old).
So she resides with me and I am an eligible adult ID card holder but I'm a single parent. Does my daughter need an ID card? She's 4 - it kind of makes sense I guess for single soldiers. I suppose such as when my parents come to stay with her when I have to go somewhere it would. I just haven't been told that nor ever heard it. I always heard no ID cards needed for dependents under 10.
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Thanks. That's why I posted to see if other single parents had done it. So I will probably go to DEERS and see what they say. I just had never, ever heard this since I got divorced and have been a single parent.
Thank you for your reply!
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You’re welcome! Now, my niece and nephew are my dependents as well and I thought that they were getting cards too but I was told this tome that they are too young and won’t need one until they are 10. So, maybe you could back when my son was 5. They are 4 and 5. Could just be the DEERS office as well. I am not sure but I know for sure that I was able to do it with my son. SFC (Join to see)
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So yes if your child is under 10 they can still get an ID card. My oldest when I was a single parent has had an ID card since she was 5 because if you go on deployments or training obviously your child is not going with you. So in case of emergency medical care ect they will issue an ID card because obviously your child will have to be with someone else and that person might not be eligible to get on base or take your child to medical appointment so that ID card will have everything your child needs.
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This was the first time I saw anything and no one has told me anything about it but - I was at a joint unit the last 3 1/2 years before now and never deployed. Probably why it didn't come up.
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I do not understand the point of acquiring an ID for your 4 year old child. They are nowhere near mature enough to maintain it and hold it accountable nor do they really need one because they will have to be with you for medical appointments and so forth.
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MSG Thomas Gould - I would keep it for her. I figured it made sense when I read single parents with kids under 10 because if they stayed with someone else or someone else stayed with them on base, they have an ID card (the child). As someone else mentioned too...obviously I wouldn't give my 4 year old an ID card. I just hadn't ever heard that single parents with kids under 10 have to get their kid an ID card. That's all.
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SFC (Join to see) - I get you but I have many friends with children under 10 who never received an ID card and everything's just fine.
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MSG (Join to see) - Are they single parents? Or dual military? That's what I was asking about because in AR 600-20 under family care plan it says "Note: Children under 10 who are children of single parents or both parents are active duty" are required to get an ID card. The AFI which replaced the AR mentioned above also states that children under 10 of single parent or dual military servicemembers need an ID card. Which makes sense for single parents such as whenever my parents would have to come stay with her when I go TDY or something.
I simply asked for experiences from other single parents which I got if you read above. Two single parents answered. Thanks for your input.
I simply asked for experiences from other single parents which I got if you read above. Two single parents answered. Thanks for your input.
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