Too bad Western Christians regard lying as indefeasibly evil. We Orthodox Christians do not: St. John Chrysostom gives example of spiritual fathers who, to move those in their care to compunction, falsely confess to a sin they know (whether by ordinary human means or divine inspiration) a penitent has failed to confess, and also gives the example of a physician who knows that one in his charge needs water, but who insists on only drinking wine (which would harm the patient), smearing the lip of an unglazed vessel with wine, filling with water and telling the patient it is wine.
In this circumstance tell the woke civil "servant" whatever they want to hear, then raise the children properly.
BTW: Happy Easter to those of you celebrating the Resurrection a week early. We Orthodox, for our part, adhere to the decrees of Nicea and keep Pascha after the whole of what, by the Church's calculation would have been the Old Covenant Passover, not just after the first day -- this year Julian vs. Gregorian is of no consequence, the first full moon of spring was the same either way, this year you Westerners are early because Pope Gregory also changed the Paschalion in a way violating the decrees of the First Ecumenical Council.
