News, Kids with Nazi Names Now in State Custody (teaching, parents, girl)

[Lucario]

I for one could not be more pleased...........




Kids with Nazi-themed middle names in state custody | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/14/2009

[tangodoodles]

I agree, naming your kids after a man and a group that caused the single greatest amount of human suffering in a period of time is just beyond evil. And I'm sure those parents were instilling racist, anti-semetic rhetoric into their children everyday. To me, that's the same as teaching a child that all Christians should be stoned or all gays should be hanged. It's just evil and wrong.

I'm thinking though, that there might be more to the story than the racism aspect. Maybe they decided to check out the house after the birthday cake incident and found foul conditions. From the pictures, the dad looks like a total meth head. He has that sunken face that meth heads tend to get. Maybe the kids were taken out of the home because of drugs. Either way, let's hope the kids find a normal home and get their names changed soon.

[the one]

i will just paste what i posted over at a similar thread in the relationships forum:

if people could name thier kids apple and saddam and rumer, then why not hitler.

its a stupid issue. i didnt name my kids weird names, but i have no problem with parents who name their kids ladanian or chingwangwing. its not my place to pick names for other people. my kids classmates have some pretty strange (foreign) names. dont bother me much.

now this? there better be good reason for removing kids from their parents. its too traumatic, so they better have everything in order.

maybe a 14 y/o girl called from within the house anonymously and reported abuse?

[JustJulia]

The article doesn't say why they were taken into custody. I doubt it was because of the names.

[jtur88]

It obviously has nothing to do with their names, which one of them has had for more than three years.

[tangodoodles]

Originally Posted by the one

i will just paste what i posted over at a similar thread in the relationships forum:

if people could name thier kids apple and saddam and rumer, then why not hitler.

its a stupid issue. i didnt name my kids weird names, but i have no problem with parents who name their kids ladanian or chingwangwing. its not my place to pick names for other people. my kids classmates have some pretty strange (foreign) names. dont bother me much.

now this? there better be good reason for removing kids from their parents. its too traumatic, so they better have everything in order.

maybe a 14 y/o girl called from within the house anonymously and reported abuse?

Ladainian just happens to be my favorite football player so . And naming your kid a "strange" name like Apple or Rumer is hardly comparable to naming your child Adolf and Aryan Nation. I, like you, am thinking there is an issue beyond the names such as drug use or abuse that would cause them to be taken from the home. I don't think they were taken just because of their names.

[njkate]

I think perhaps with all the attention they brought upon themselves with the birthday cake incident other issues may have surfaced.

All though the names of the kids are asinine and reckless, that in and of itself should not be reason to remove the kids from the parents. It would be a dangerous, slippery slope.

Hopefully there will be more news coming out about this.

[Ailin]

I hope that the children weren't taken solely because of thier names. It's unlikely but you never know. I saw on the comments section of the link someone said that the kids should have thier names changed by the state. I don't agree with that because while the names are highly unusual and some would would find them highly objectionable, the parents still retain the right to name their children until their rights are terminated or they give them up. Just because the state took the children temporarily (as of now it is temporary) doesn't give the state the right to change the kids names to something more conventional.

And also, the store that refused to write the name on the birthday cake was out of line. No, I don't like the name, and I do believe the parents choose it to be inflamatory, but the employee that refused was being paid to write names on cakes. Not to bring their personal philosophies into work with them.
For instance Osama is a fairly common name in some parts of the Middle East and Asia. Does that mean that a young child with that name shouldn't be able to have a personalized birthday cake?

[PurpleLove08]

I am sure they weren't just taken because of their names.
Wouldn't the state have known about this years before if they stayed in the same state?
Like when you go to the Social Security office and tell them your kids name...wouldn't the state have stepped in then?

[Ailin]

That's true LiveToday. I was just thinking back to a few years ago when people with Pagan religious beliefs were having their children taken from them for their beliefs.
I think the names definitely drew attention to whether or not their parents were fit.