Nazi-inspired names lead to children being taken away?

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

Parents of 'Adolf Hitler' Lose Custody of Newborn

By Alyssa Newcomb

Heath and Deborah Campbell, the New Jersey parents of three children with Nazi-inspired names, lost custody of their fourth child 17 hours after he was born, the Express-Times of Lehigh Valley, Pa., reported.

Hons Campbell was taken into custody by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services late Thursday night after the doctor who delivered the baby called the agency, the paper reported.

“There’s no legal binding court order. It’s basically a kidnapping, but they use different terms,” Heath Campbell told the Express-Times.

The Campbell family stepped into the spotlight in December 2008 when a ShopRite grovery store declined to decorate a birthday cake for their son Adolf Hitler Campbell’s third birthday.

The state took custody of Adolf, along with his sisters JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Himler Jeannie Campbell, in January of 2009. The three children have remained in foster care ever since.

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I think it is sick to name your child something holocaust related. But then I wonder if CPS would have caught on to suspicions of abuse if the kids were named Mary, Bob, and Billy...etc. I hear this and just a week ago I read about a mom in Ohio who let her 13 year old disabled daughter starve to death. And CPS was called 2 years before but didn't bother to check on the child. 

Comments

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

I don't like neo-nazi's either.

My gripe is that articles I've pulled about this say "reported suspicion of abuse." Back home I reported an abuse case to CPS in Ohio - when I saw a child on multiple occasions being bullied/teased/and burned with cigarettes by his parents. CPS never even checked on the family, or saw the boy. Until a family member reported it a few years later. Since I was just a tutor at the school he went to apparently my tip didn't count. I'm generally just irritated that CPS may just be coming down on this family for giving their children ridicule magnet names. If their is no actual abuse happening and just the names then they should ask the parents to change the names.

Or maybe we should just make it so that if you want to name your child that then someone can refuse to put those things on a birth certificate.

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

Remember, because these are minors, and the nature of CPS reports is so sensitive, the actual CPS findings may not be open to the public. So all the press has to go on is what the original calls were about.

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

While it is really really horrible that not all cases are investigated as fully as they should be by the CPS, it's focusing your energy in entirely the wrong direction to complain about the times when the CPS does intervene.

Or maybe we should just make it so that if you want to name your child that then someone can refuse to put those things on a birth certificate.

There are countries where you are required to get a name approved before you can give it to your child. (Related to this post, Germany is one of them, and every single name that this couple has tried to give their kids would have been vetoed all the way to Jupiter.) I don't approve of all of the regulations in Germany, but I wouldn't mind a list of "banned names," including Adolf Hitler, Garbage, names like the ones mentioned in this post (http://baby-names.livejournal.com/5827102.html)*, and others along those lines.

*Spotlight surge! I had to go back more than 200 entries to find that!

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

I'm not complaining about them intervening. My original post was asking for your opinions on the situation. I only posted comments of times when CPS did nothing with cases involving normal names.

In fact, I say many times that I am not saying that they had no reason to take these kids away. I'm glad they did. I would also take kids away from neo-nazis. So in no way am I complaining. At all.

I agree with you on the naming thing though.
I believe in Mexico they also have a law that you can't name your kid words. Like "Azul," and "Llueve"