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Court Gives Order for Parents to Change Kids Name

Article Summary by: theradical    

Original Author: The Radical

Does giving a child a funny name constitute child abuse ?


After a New Zealand family court decision it just

might


The Judge Rob Murfitt has made a nine year old girl named Talula does The Hula From Hawaii a ward of the court until her parents had changed her name a lawyer for the girl says the girl was so horrified and mortified with her name she was known as “K” to her friends judge Murfitt said that the name left the girl open to ridicule and she would be scarred the New Zealand Registry of Births Deaths and Mariages have refused names such as Sex Fruit Hitler Fish and Chips for twins and Cinderella Beauty Blossom and 4real names that have been allowed include Number Sixteen Bus Shelter Benson and Hedges and Tragically Violence  


Published: July 26, 2008
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