25th-July-2008
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How do you deal with STUPID parents? | |
I have deep reservations about Family Court Judges being permitted to breathe. Nevertheless some have to deal with clear cut cases of STUPID parents; people who might otherwise be considered poor breeding stock. Quote: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/daft-names-alarm-family-court-judge/2008/07/24/1216492640656.html
Talula Does The Hula?
July 24, 2008
Parents make fools of their children by giving them eccentric names, says a New Zealand judge.
Judge Rob Murfitt of the Family Court launched the attack after finding a girl had been named Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.
He ordered the girl, the subject of a custody battle, to be placed in court guardianship so her name could be changed. A lawyer had reported the nine-year-old was so embarrassed about her name that she had not revealed it to her friends and was otherwise known as "K".
The girl feared being mocked and teased, and had a better insight than her parents, who appeared not to have given any thought to the implications of the name, the lawyer said.
Judge Murfitt, who made written findings on the issue public, cited other names such as Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence and Benson and Hedges (twins).
"Recently, for the first time in my experience as a Family Court judge, the name of a child described in text language has emerged," he said.
On that occasion the mother had named her daughter O.crnia but was prepared to concede to a condition of a parenting order so it could be adjusted to Oceania.
Murfitt said he was concerned such names presented a social hurdle for children.
"It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap," the judge said.
However New Zealand authorities said some of the names said to have been given to their children had not been officially registered.
"The names Fish and Chips, Masport, and Mower, Yeah Detroit, Stallion, Twisty Poi, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit have not been registered," Brian Clarke, Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, said in a statement.
He said names could be declined for registration if they may cause offence to a reasonable person, were unreasonably long, or resembled an official title or rank. Names using numerals would also be declined.
| My good friend Amfortas says that he would bring back the Stocks, even providing cheap rotten veggies to throw at such people. He thinks that Celebrities would likely be participants in the new public speactacle.
I have tried all my life to leave the place better than I found it. But there are 6 billion other buggers out there messing it up. I am outnumbered. But... YOU don't just make a difference, you make THE difference. |
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