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PiscesToddler Named Hitler Taken from Parents
Last month a little boy named Adolf Hitler Campbell was a denied a
birthday cake with his name. Now, Child and Family Services has removed him and his
two sisters from their home.
It all started with a birthday cake. A simple request to inscribe a three-year-old toddler's name in frosting was denied by a Greenwich, N.J., ShopRite. The problem? The boy's name is Adolf Hitler Campbell.
The story made headlines nationwide as people tried to process how Heath and Deborah Campbell could name a child after one of the most hated men in world history.
But that was just the beginning. Now, according to LehighValleyLive, all of the Campbell's children -- Adolf Hitler, one-year-old JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and 8-month-old Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie were removed from their home by Child Services.
So far, no reason has been released to the public on why exactly the children were removed. Although some argue naming a boy Hitler should be reason enough.
Bob Heckman, who lives across the street from the Campbells, says he doesn't understand why the couple named the kids those names. "He [Health Campbell] has two other children with another woman, who left him," Heckman tells momlogic. "They have sensible names. Kurtlynn and Isadore."
Heckman also alleges Heath is solely to blame for naming the children. "I think Deborah, the mom, puts up with him for some reason. I think she's really afraid of him."
Although the Campbell home is decorated by all manner of Nazi paraphernalia, the couple claims they're not racist. Campbell says he chose the controversial names to honor his German heritage and for "the unique" factor.
Founder of Babynames.com Jennifer Moss says, "Giving your child a name that is identified with a murderer and mass genocide is child abuse."
But Campbell begs to differ. "They're just names, you know, yeah, they (the Nazis) were bad people back then. But my kids are little. They're not going to grow up like that."
What do you think? Does naming a child a Nazi-inspired name count as child abuse?
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Which is worse:
A parent who gives a child an obnoxious name or
A government that takes children because the parents have been politically incorrect?
hint, it’s not the first choice.
i’m SURE there’s more to why the kids were removed than their names.
Considering the neighbor says the wife might be afraid of her husband there may be more grounds there than we know. Never good to assume you know a situation when you only see a small splinter of the whole story.
On a side note, honoring German heritage by doing something even Germans have made illegal seems a good bit off kilter.
Parents who are messed up enough to name their children after evil people, like Hitler, should not be having children. Why continue the legacy of kookiness?
This whole thing is retarded. Part of me feels that this whole thing is a hoax, as no human being ON EARTH could be that stupid as to think they could name their kids Hitler and Aryan Nation and think that it’s okay.
Morons.
Naming a child after one of the most hated people in history alone may not (though probably is) be reason enough to take their children away, but the thought behind it is. If their home is decorated in Nazi paraphernalia and they name their children after the people and ideas that supported that paraphernalia one can assume these parents don’t have their heads on straight. If it looks like a duck, and it smells like a duck, it’s probably…a duck.
It’s ludicrous that these people are trying to say they’re not racist. If those children are left to those parents it seems only logical they will be raised with a racist and hateful ideology.
If people like these English-surnamed individuals are abusive/insane enough to cripple their kids with those incredibly cruel names, that hateful behavior alone should get their kids taken away for good. Get these poor kids out of the mini-white supremacist camp and into some decent homes!
If Campbell really felt the name wouldn’t do any harm, why didn’t he just change his own name? Then he would have to be the one who had to deal with the stigma associated with it.
It’s like he’s setting his kids up to be ostracized for life.
I hope there a better reason then their names to take them away. b/c in the end if their not actually harming the children then they have no right to take them away. These laws were made to protect children from homes that were abusive, not slightly off their rocker.
I don’t like it. We don’t really know why the children were removed from the home, though, but I can at least guess that the cause of any type of investigation is due to the national attention they received from the birthday cake controversy. I should wait to comment after the reasons for the removal of the children have been made public, but I do want to address the people who think it is OK to snatch kids from their homes because of a name.
Now, for anyone who thinks such a name constitutes child abuse, I believe you are wrong. You’d have to look at what exactly child abuse is. Child abuse can occur either physically or mentally; if a name were to fall under child abuse, it would certainly have to be mental. Therein lies the task of proving a name actually caused mental abuse. A person could say the excessive teasing endured growing up would be abuse, but that is the wrongdoing of the teaser, not the parents.
I believe that even racists have the right to parent children. They certainly had that right as few as fifty years ago when nearly the entire country was racist. Are views outside of the mainstream collective views abusive? I believe it’s silly to force religion on kids, but it’d be unheard of to try and remove kids from extremely religious homes.
Anyway, we don’t need some bureaucrats deciding what we can and can’t name kids. Are the names a smart decision? No, it’s fairly dumb to name your kids something like that. Do we need CPS removing kids because of names or legislation making certain names off-limits? No again. That’s totally the opposite of freedom.
At the very least, the very very least, this man is using his children to make a point. The kids will suffer for that point.
On the other hand, let’s pretend everything is as the father says it is. Essentially, the complaint is that they shouldn’t be allowed to name a kid Hitler because EVERYONE ELSE will wrongly be intolerant towards the child. The wrongdoing, therefore, will be other people’s doing.
Does this mean the father isn’t being cruel? Well, it goes back to him using his kids to make a point.
So, no, I don’t think you can call the names abuse. Sadly, it isn’t logically fair to do so. That said, those names are and obviously were big red flags towards another problem—one that hasn’t been disclosed.
Sure, the names of the children are a bit disturbing but if they are going to start yanking children out of homes because of what their named, then they should also start yanking black children called Malcom (after Malcom X). Hell we are going to have a POTUS with a terrorists name!!! If the children are in no physical danger I don’t see how any state can do that legally without charges against the child services for prejudism.
the problem i see is that there are many names from other countries that are being used here in America and not frowned upon. I wonder if that is because the lack of education or the fact that it is easier to be criticial of a name when it is for a white child verses a child of another color. Now i know what your thinking, and no I am not White. I have family in this country with names of leaders from our nation that have been known for killing far more than hitler.
go figure.
I can’t believe that this is the reason the goverment went in and took these kids. I sure hope that there is more to it. Yes, the names are offensive but many children have bad names. How many Osama and Hussien (spelling?) are there out there. As a matter of fact our new president’s middle name is Hussien and no one seems to be offended by that. We walk a very fine line in this country if we allow children to be taken from their parents because we don’t like what name they were given. What’s next…the parents are too fat, the parents smoke, the parents drink, the parents aren’t smart enough or make enough money,the parents like to go out and party still on the weekend or maybe parents who work really hard and don’t spend much time with their kids or don’t read to them at night and tuck them into bed. I see a lot of parents out there that I don’t agree with the way they are raising their children and many may not agree with the way I raise mine but that doesn’t decide what make a good parent. We have many families out there that live by their beliefs and pass them on to their children and unless the children are abuse who are we to pass judgement on those beliefs. We the people have the right to freedom of religion in this country and we should be careful about where the line should be drawn or maybe next time the goverment will come and take your child.
next thing you know they’ll start taking away boys named Ted b/c there was a serial killer with that name
Why not Sh!thead and DumbF**k??
The father needs to be castrated and the mother sterilized.
The question asked was do you think naming the child hitler is child abuse. Maybe not directly physically hurting the child but think of how society will react and treat the child when he goes to school. He will surely not be welcome scially to any group and may even have to endure physical abuse from other children. Though the parents are not directly doing the physical abuse, one can argue that by having named them something else all of this would have been avoided. Although it is also NOT correct for society to turn their backs on these kids or react violently towards them because of their name, it is just the way society is and that is exactly what will happen. Furthermore, if the home is infact decorated with Nazi paraphernalia one can also safely assume that the parent/s strongly believes in what hitler was trying to do and may raise the children with his same beliefs. All it takes is one crazy raised child to kill another, that in its self is a tragedy. Worse would be if he took out thousands of kids through a Columbine type of act. As was said in an earlier reply. The father claims that this is a way to honor his german heritage but the germans even made it illegal. Though its sad to take a child away from a home and place it in another you also have to think if the child is removed and placed in a “normal” (if you will) home he may not be raised to try and Mass Murder. If taking one child from his natural psycho parents and placed in another home could potentially save a live, why not do it? Those who are upset about the fact that the kids were removed.. would you want your child to go to school with someone named hitler? Would you still feel the same way if god forbid you received a phone call that your childs school was under fire by a kid named Adolf Hitler? Would you still defend the right to name him and raise him however? Its a sensitive subject, one which has no “right” solution. You just have to take the lesser of the two evils, which in my humble opinion would be to take the children and place them else where.
So what are they “the goverment” going to do after they take the kids…rename
them. This is crazy. Not many people actually use their first and middle name while they are in school and out in the real world. If you use just Adolf or just Joycelynn or Honzlynn most people won’t even make the connection.
For most of the comments I’ve read, let keep in mind one thing. Parents do not have right to make their beliefs the child’s beliefs. Why shoud a child carry a name that is the Father’s belief. Give them a normal name and let them choose and make their own beliefs as they grow older. These children will grow up stereotyped & defensive because of the beliefs of their parents. Wrong, just wrong. And naming your son Malcom, because your heritage dictates it, is entirely different than naming your son Adolf. And the BS excuse that they are not racist is exactly that, Adolf? Aryan Nation? I would even venture to guess that the cake needed to be white/vanilla and not chocolate. Life is hard enough for kids these days, why make it harder giving them prejudice names.
A couple with less than substantial IQ gets hitched. One wants to be a follower of Hitler, the other agrees to let herself fall in love with the idiot. They have children. Both are unemployed. A sibling has a birthday. The store won’t put the name on the cake. A lawyer is hired and a law suit is pending? They are probably in process of getting an unemployment check. In the interim, child services steps in. They will probably have their children back too soon enough. They will go on and the child will grow and find out who his namesake is and ask the parents “Why?”. “Why would you name me after the most notorious man that existed on the planet?” “Simple.” replies the father “Because I’m a “wannabe” bigot with backwards swastikas tattooed on me and and I want to be noticed for my cause.”“And what is your cause?” asks the child.
I’m not even going to further that conversation. It, like the parents that have mangled their future, have no good final disposition to it. They will get the ACLU involved and make a few thousand… three or so years down the road, but the children will eventually meet other children who will harass them to the end of their days. Plain and simple. They might as well have named them Satan, Beelzebub, and Devil. It would provoke the same reaction in their peers. Yes, they have the right to name their children what they want. The children will pay for their senseless act. Our legal system will be even more bogged down by people without a clue. The pundits will have a field day and cash in on this for the life of the children. The innocent will be tortured. A lesson will be learned.