I've been potentially matched with a child, and I feel awful for saying this, but I don't like the name.
I didn't expect to like the name but this is worse than I expected. Everyone I have mentioned the name to had the exact same reaction as me.
I don't mean to offend anyone when I say this. Everyone's reaction when I have said the name is: is the child black?
It's such a distinctive name from that culture even though the child isn't of that ethnicity.
Throughout the training we have been told over and over how important it is to keep the child's name. So this makes me feel terrible. I feel if we can just knock off two letters at the start it would make the child less identifiable and more palatable... But still recognisable (he's just over one year old)
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Hitchyhero · 15/05/2019 18:49
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