See: Awful names can be child abuse (possibly)...

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uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090115/twl-adolf-hitler-is-taken-into-care-3fd0ae9.html

uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090115/twl-adolf-hitler-is-taken-into-care-3fd0ae9.html

I'm surprised they were allowed to give their children those names. The parents were clearly looking to provoke.

Some folk are unbelievable aren't they!

it doesn't say they have been taken into care because of their names though ...

i think it is such a hateful, disgusting and provactive thing to do, that it must have flagged the family up to SS?

Can you imagine the poor person that had to actually register those names, must have been horrified

i wonder if you can refuse to register names?

I know you can in Belgium, because they've got certain rules (the name needs to be a saint, historical figure or a proven existing name in another country. Holland is a bit more liberal though.
I suppose the names of certain celebrities' children prove that you can't refuse names in a lot of countries. Maybe they should do it though to stop some poor things from being calles something ridiculous OR provocative like in this case.

Which SS though!?

Yeah especially if they walked into the register office looking like a couple of BNPers (well, german versions).

Registrar should have said 'I don't think so buddy'. I wonder did the registrar challenge the parents! What did they say? Did he accept it? Had the registrar any power to prevent them naming their child a certain name.

I want more details!!

Gauly that was my thought. With names like that they should be with the SS

What was that case in Italy recently?

The parents wanted to call their son Friday which to me is a little feminine but not totally INSANE. I mean I would have prefered it for a girl, quite nice even. Would they have banned it for a girl?

Then the registrars renamed Friday 'Gregorio il Magno' not just Gregorio but 'il magno'.

That is so self-congratulatory I love it. Gregorio il Magno Vittorio. And they thought Friday was 'too much'..

My point being they intervene at the drop of a hat in Italy and let you call your child Adolf in other parts of Europe.

As far as little Adolf and Aryann Nation are concerned: We don't have to go to the registrars here in the US. You have to fill out the name on the birth certificate before you leave the hospital, and the hospital sends it to the county registrar to be processed. So no one would have been able to challenge the parents as the hospital doesn't care what you name them as long as they are named something. (The probably went to my hospital too)

Dyfuss (social services in New Jersey) can only take children if the home is deemed unfit after an investigation.

I can't believe that they live not far from my house.

Oh are they American? for some reason I thought I'd read Belgian.

I'd have called my son 'spot' if I'd had to name him at the hospital when he was born at 36 wks !!!!

I thought I'd read they're from Holland. Is it a town called Holland maybe in New Jersey?

I just re-read it. It's Holland township! Now I have no idea where that is, but the word township always makes me think of South Africa.

they're american