New Jersey kids with Nazi-inspired names removed from home

Other than bad taste in names I don't see a crime here at all. Since when is being a white racist wannabe a crime?

No crime is needed for DFS to take an interest in the protection of children.

Buying a cake is reason to believe they are being treated badly?

bushlover- If u see no inherit problem with someone naming their kids like this, well, thats just pure idjacy. Take a few mins and think...

The only idiots I see is the man for naming them as such. He's the idiot. But it's not criminal unless he teaches them to hate and kill.

Actually, I'd like to know more about the supermarket bakery. It is in the business of serving the public and provides a service that is open to the public. Why did it refuse to put the child's name on the cake? If that is the child's legal name, the state has already passed on it when the parents sought and obtained a birth certificate.

Nonetheless, the article says that it was the supermarket incident that alerted social services to this family. I don't think a name per se is a good reason for removing a child from his parents, but there are many other reasons why children can be and should be separated from their parents.

At some point the childrens' births must have been registered. Why was nothing done then?

At some point the childrens' births must have been registered. Why was nothing done then?

I am thinking the names were not officialized, just like we might put a nickname on a cake.

Anyway, America is moving towards authoritarianism and thought control. So much for the land of freedom. Parents have a right to name and teach their kid's as they want. Society will either fail or succeed to straighten them out later. Any other way is, well, fascist.

What is sad is that we were winning against such people. I believe they were already disappearing anyway. An anecdote: A racist family in my neighborhood had two sons. I sometimes hung out with the younger one, who often said nasty things about blacks. I straightened him out where I could. He did not even know any blacks. Last I heard, he married a black woman.

That is how you win against such people. Becoming a Nazi yourself is the road to failure.

Given the level of ridicule a child would receive growing up with that name, plus the stigma they'd carry around later in life (How's the job search going?), I think it does cross the line into abuse. Parents who choose a name like that aren't fit to be parents. They're using their children as a vehicle to express their own anger.

I don't think a name per se is a good reason for removing a child from his parents, but there are many other reasons why children can be and should be separated from their parents.

It's probably a matter of finding other things amiss in the home after being alerted by the supermarket to the cake name request.

If you feel inclined to bestow such names, get a pet. I remember the cat's name in the French flick Diva was "Ayatollah."

Naming your kid Adolf Hitler and being a flaming racist are not reasons to have your children removed. However, what are the odds that people stupid enough to do so are also bad parents that violate child saftey laws?

Pretty good, I'd guess.

It is in the business of serving the public and provides a service that is open to the public.

Most businesses reserve the right to refuse service to whomever they please as long as the refusal is not based on things like race, sex, or disability. It's a private business, not a government agency.

There must be something more to this family than bad taste in naming children for the state to take the kids away.

Let's hope there is something concrete and illegal here that justifies the state removing children from their parents. As horrible as these names are, parents must have the right to name their children as they wish without the state's approval.

With the story about the original cake decorating refusal incident was a video of the father talking about it. Let's just say he was at the lower end of the IQ scale. If you're ignorant enough to name your child after such an infamous person, then likely it's not a stretch to think there might be other valid reasons behind the children being taken away.

It isn't a crime to name your children such a thing; if stupid names were a crime than most recent Hollywood celebrities would be doing jail time for bestowing such gems as 'Apple'. The article brings up two interesting points; parents who should be held accountable for stupid names that their children must spend a lifetime suffering because of, and the vast and almost undefined power that CPS and other agencies have in taking children from their parents. It wasn't so long ago in our great 'democracy' that children were taken from homes with little explanation and parents and siblings never saw each other again. Don't get me wrong - I'm all for protecting the child. Likely an idiot who would name his kid Adolph Hitler doesn't deserve the privilege of raising children.