Home Affairs will go ahead with the implementation of new travel regulations for children despite continuing calls for a delay. From Monday, the parentage of all children travelling to or from South Africa will have to be verified by an unabridged birth certificate - or their home country's equivalent - and proof of the permission of both parents for the child to travel will be required.Home Affairs director-general Mkuseli Apleni said the regulations were being introduced to counter child trafficking.The DA will picket against the regulations in Cape Town today.The new regulations say:Parents travelling with their children must produce a copy of each child's unabridged birth certificate;If at the time of the birth of a child one parent was not listed on the birth certificate, that parent's consent to travel is not required;If divorced parents share custody of a child, the consent of both is required;If consent is being withheld by one parent, the courts will have to be approached;Parents who cannot locate a spouse or former spouse will have to approach the courts;Those travelling with a child who is not their biological child will have to travel with the unabridged birth certificate and an affidavit from the biological parents giving consent;Exemptions will apply when a parent has died shortly before consent could be given, and a death certificate has not been issued, or when a parent is mentally or physically ill and cannot sign. Both situations will require the remaining parent to submit a doctor's certificate in support of an application for exemption; andParents of adopted children will be required to travel with the adoption certificate.South Africa has issued unabridged birth certificates to all children since March 2013. All children born before then will have to apply for such a certificate.Apleni said the department would cope with the increased workload. It was consistently issuing passports in about 13 days and parents registering births were issued with the unabridged birth certificate "on the spot"."An instruction was issued to all front offices to encourage parents applying for passports for children under 18 to also apply for the unabridged birth certificate."..