It took Cape Town residents Steven Nicholson and his wife two years and endless paperwork to get their adopted child's birth certificate. When he adopted a second child it took another two years of hassling the Department of Home Affairs to provide their child's birth certificate.Nicholson, the director of the NGO Arise, which encourages adoptions of children, realised that his experience was the norm.Now his organisation is campaigning for Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba to standardise the process for changing an adopted child's name and getting a birth certificate.Without a birth certificate, he explained, it made it difficult to put a child's name on a school or creche waiting list, or receive medical treatment, or travel outside of South Africa.Since the campaign began last week, frustrated adoptive parents have shared their stories on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #Fixadoption SA.When parents rename an adopted child, the child automatically gets a new ID number as well as a birth certificate that includes the new parents' names.The application is made at home affairs after the adoption has been approved by the courts and registered by the Department of Social Development.Jules Kynaston, a mother of three adopted children, took to Twitter to get Gigaba to help her sort out the paperwork." Streamline the process from the start rather than deal with issues case by case," she said...