Opinions/ Can't name your kid Adolf

[Charlie P]

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Three New Jersey siblings whose names have Nazi connotations have been placed in the custody of the state, police said Wednesday.
Holland Township Police Sgt. John Harris said workers from the state Division of Youth and Family Services removed 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell and his younger sisters, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, from their home Tuesday.
Harris said family services did not tell police the reason the children were removed. Agency spokeswoman Kate Bernyk said it does not comment on specific cases.
The children and their parents, Heath and Deborah Campbell, received attention last month when a supermarket bakery refused to put Adolf Hitler Campbell's name on a birthday cake.

Something tells me there is more to this story.

[stealthycat II]

Social Services have God power ...... that said, very likely more to this story .......

[burniegoeasily]

You must have missed the first post about this. But I agree, there has to be more to this than the names.These kids names were not just given to them, so to suggest it was just the crazy namesthat got them taken,would mean that this family was living under a rock. Which is obviously not the case. I posted a story about the cake a while back.And while reading about the cakeincident, I found a story about these kids being prone to violence. Besides, C.P.S. has to have some thing solid before they will remove a child from a home. My mother inlaw is a CPS officer, so I hear how frustrating it can be. I,myself, havereported several cases of abuse (part of my job) and all they can do is investigate until they have solid evidence. Ive had kids in my classes who were obviously abused. I, as welll asseveral other teachers, call CPS on the parents, just to have nothing done. We are always told, if there is no tangible evidence of the abuse, there is nothing they can do but file a report. Also, CPS will not disclose the case while under investigation.

[Champlain Islander]

ORIGINAL: Charlie P

bakery refused to put Adolf Hitler Campbell's name on a birthday cake.

Something tells me there is more to this story.

I wonder if it was a Jewish bakery?

[burniegoeasily]

And before some call B.S. on me, one of the kids I am speaking of is now dead. Killed by his parents. We reported the abuse several times, and CPS had no solid evidence until the child was found dead in bed. The parents had given the kid drugs to knock him out, to the point he o.d.ed..

[Aught Six]

There's nothing wrong the name Adolf.

[C. Davis]

ORIGINAL: Aught Six

There's nothing wrong the name Adolf.

You got that right. Just think how far it would show we have come as a country to be so open mindedand elect somebody name Adolf Hitler Campbell to be president one day.

President AHC

The country is obviously ready. All he needs to have isa willing press....and Oprah's endorsement.

C. Davis

[Simp]

The name "Adolf" by itself isn't offensive at all. But naming a baby Adolf Hitler _______ is just downright stupid. His parents should belethaly injected. I'm sure the parents are real upstanding citizens in their community. Real winners they are.

[sachiko]

I believe the news item said that they (CPS) did not give a reason for the removal. That won't happen until it goes to court. Until then it's just speculation. There is no reason to think the kids were removed because of the names.

[Griswold]

daddyslittlegirl, there's no reason to think they were removed because of their names? Until something more specific is given, there's EVERY reason to think they were removed -- perhaps not because of their names per se, but because of their parents' fascination with the Nazi culture. Their names is what started this uproar, and the news stories I've read stated that the police in the town said they had received no reports of abuse or neglect.

ORIGINAL: Simp

The name "Adolf" by itself isn't offensive at all. But naming a baby Adolf Hitler _______ is just downright stupid. His parents should beÂ*lethaly injected. I'm sure the parents are real upstanding citizens in their community. Real winners they are.

It may be a stupid name, but that's a reason to remove a kid from home? Who gets to decide what names make which parents worthy of this lethal injection you speak of? What if I don't like the name Simp?

What if a parent names his or her child Osama bin Laden? Should that child also be removed from home? Where does it end?

Naming a child Adolph Hitler or Aryan Nation is pretty stupid. I would even say it's sick. But this country we live in guarantee us the freedom to do that. If the parents are teaching their children that the Nazis were cool and that the Holocaust never happened, that's their right, whether we agree with it or not. If there were no reports of abuse or neglect, then there's no reason for those children to be removed from that home, period, dot. The fact that they were removed is disgusting and proves -- once again, as if we needed any more proof -- that child protective services in most states have way too much authority.

I'll guarantee you that removing these children from their home and having them potentially wind up in a foster home will cause them far more distress and long-term harm than their names or what they were being taught at home ever would.

You know what's really ironic about this? People in which political culture would be apt to forcibly remove children from home because their parents did something that the state did not agree with? Nazis (or Communists, etc.).

I'm angrier about this story than any news story I've seen in a while.