Judge wants ban on strange names
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Should be able to name your children whatever you want. Surely their name reflects your feelings for them and your reasons for bringing a child into the world etc, so if you name him/her something funny it's just your comedic take on life shining through.
Also, to people who say the child wouldn't be able to find work etc, I call BS. You'd just give yourself a nickname (loads of people are known by nicknames anyway) and explain that your parents had a bit of an odd sense of humour if anyone questioned it!
Also, to people who say the child wouldn't be able to find work etc, I call BS. You'd just give yourself a nickname (loads of people are known by nicknames anyway) and explain that your parents had a bit of an odd sense of humour if anyone questioned it!
Ah fudge, so now I won't be able to call my kid "Kickmyass"... >_<
I agree that parents shouldn't call their kids stupid names, but what the big deal, once you reach a certain age you can change your name to whatever you want it. So nobody has a name labeled on them forever.
Also, Dear Pineapple sounds awesome.
I agree that parents shouldn't call their kids stupid names, but what the big deal, once you reach a certain age you can change your name to whatever you want it. So nobody has a name labeled on them forever.
Also, Dear Pineapple sounds awesome.
It's HITLER not HILTER, but none the less, and it was his second name ADOLF being his first.Evilmonkeysniper0182 said:
Sorry about that... just the old history teacher shouting at me from years gone by during my school days, fun times, fun times.
Anyway... what if there was a hippy commune there, they'd have to change a hell of alot of names then. eg one of my friends is dutch and her name is Iris Jasmine Van Der Veld [of the field] and I think that's an awesome name. Bloody prudent boring Judgey person.
If he manages we should all boycot him and walk about the DR with T-shirts that say HI! MY NAME IS: [insert rediculously long and flamboyant name here, something like that could be silly enough to be honest, but here's 2 examples my old history teacher is willing to pay £100 each to anyone if they provide proof that they have named their children as such]
1] Smorgasbord Funkidelika
2]Alfonso Gingerbread Toolbox
£200 to be made if anyone is willing to call 2 of their children that!!!
Any takers?!.
Doug said:
That is absolutely horrific. And this brings us to the problem with names like that: the parents are only doing it for their own satisfaction. Like those mothers who force their kids to be in beauty pageants. It isn't for the child's benefit, it's because the parent wants some sort of recognition for themselves. Giving your kid a "cool" geek name is just you being a geek. It's the same as getting a flashy tattoo. You don't get it for the tattoo's benefit, but for your own. If you give a child a bad name to make yourself feel better then that's just you being a bad parent. If you care so little about their name, how much can you care about their well-being?Sewblon said:
Of course I agree. There is a law in Poland forbidding names that can be harmful or demeaning names or if they can in ANY way place a permanent stigma on the child. For example, you can't name your child "Budda" or "Jezus" here (Buddha and Jesus...), because it would be a near 100% risk of other kinds making fun of the one with a strange name.
Besides, what idiot would name his kid like that?
Besides, what idiot would name his kid like that?
No, just the 17 most important years of your life.Jannycats said:
Awhile ago they had some kids named sex fruit and stuff. The judge required a renaming for them.
The problem with that is that almost all English names were known as "Christian" names, but that had little to do with it being a Jesus-related name, it was more of a way to ask for your real or full name as opposed to a nickname. Also, I never said anything about forcing beliefs or ideas on anyone, so no, giving a child a Christian or geek name does not mean you are forcing any beliefs or values on anyone. That actually just comes from the act of parenting. I'm not discussing the ideas and opinions parents give their kids, just the act of trying to draw attention to the parent and using the child to do so.Terminalchaos said:
Note: If you can give a better reason than "I named them Vash after my favorite anime" then I don't mind kids with odd names, but these parents just wanted to give their kids funny names. That will give the kids trouble with their peers later in life, and there is no good reason for it.(I was really high that day doesn't work either, hippy or not)
I want three children: a girl called Village Bike, a boy called Panty Sniffer and a mixed gender child called Hemaphro Deity who will be both King and Queen of their kind.
We already have this in Sweden. It's the primarilly tax office that decides (since they hold the Name, Identity and Residence Registry), then it's the regional courts I think that settles disputes between the citizens and the tax office. You can't give girl's names to boys and vice versa.Evilmonkeysniper0182 said:
Generally I think this rule is in effect because a name is something that is a large part of a person's identity. And since children themselves cannot decide in this matter, there needs to be someone that safeguards from someone screwing with their future identity. Just because someone is the parent does not automatically make them right on everything.
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School degrees make you smarter in your chosen specialty, and more knowledgable about the subject matter. It does not, however, give you common sonse, nor does it give you the right to enforce your opinions (because that's what this is) on other peoples lives. Especially those which hold no bearing on your own.Danzorz said:
I would think that judges could come up with something more important to rule on, like say... people breaking the law, than to start doing things like this.
