songline
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I think naming kids something connected to genocide or what will lead them to years of ridicule and prejudice is emotionally abusive. However, I think we need to be very careful here with how we balance free speech rights in our country and the names given to children. If we allow the state to determine what names our kids can have, yes, the children of idiots will be protected but what is a good name is subjective and I would not want the state telling me what is a good name or not.
That being said, thankfully, no matter how often these parents protest, this is not what this case is about. There may have been calls to CPS as a result of the names, but the children were taken due to the fact that their were allegations against their mentally ill parents, both of whom were abused as children and never treated, including intense domestic violence, keeping the kids strapped in car seats for long periods, inside the home, threats by the dad to kill the mother, fears expressed by the mother and conveyed to a neighbor that her husband was going to kill her or harm the kids, allowing the children access to only small parts of the home and allegations against the dad of domestic violence against exes, abuse of another child from an different woman, with a vacuum to the face, and teaching this other child how to kill, at age 3:
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-08-05/news/27071868_1_appeals-court-family-court-court-rules
http://abcnews.go.com/US/parents-cannot-regain-custody-children-nazi-inspired/story?id=11334970
These allegations seem to be born out as little Adolph, at age 3, expressed a the desire to kill his siblings and uttered threats against his psychologist, saying he would kill her, etc.
I agree with whoever said that the names were merely a tip off that something was very wrong in that house.
Whatever is wrong with the parents is not going to create healthy children.
In addition to name them with names that induce bad feeling is not a blessing for the kids.
IMHO - this kids needed to be taken and hopefully renamed too, but if they are already abused kids it is sad very sad we know that abusers are often those who were abused. I really hope the kids get lots of help.