07-24-2008, 06:06 PM
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All important elusive independent swing voter...
Location: People's Republic of KKKalifornia
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What's In A Name?
So it seems there is a trend these past few years of naming kids non-traditional names. While I'm all for self-identity and individual expression, I do feel it goes too far at times. I realize it is subjective, but it is one of the things the kid doesn't have much control over. What do you think? Do some kids naming go to far or should we let the kid deal with it? Is naming your kid Satan or World B Free quirky and unique or child abuse? Well apparently they are trying to do something about it in New Zealand.
Judge: Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do - Yahoo! News
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.
Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.
Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was involved in a custody battle, he said.
The new name was not made public to protect the girl's privacy.
"The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name," he wrote. "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily."
The girl had been so embarrassed at the name that she had never told her closest friends what it was. She told people to call her "K" instead, the girl's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the court.
In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the unfortunate names.
Registration officials blocked some names, including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed, including Number 16 Bus Shelter "and tragically, Violence," he said.
New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offense to a reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar general of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Clarke said officials usually talked to parents who proposed unusual names to convince them about the potential for embarrassment.
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