That common sense is the least common of the senses is nothing new, but when it comes to choosing a child’s name, it doesn’t hurt to make a minimum effort to put it into practice. Choosing the baby’s name is the first decision we make for our children and it will mark them throughout their lives.
But above the right of parents to choose the name they want for their children, there is that of safeguarding the child from carrying throughout his life a pejorative, humiliating or clearly negative name such as Cyanide, the name that a mother had chosen for her daughter and that, luckily, a British court prevented it .
The woman, from Wales and apparently with mental problems, was the mother of twins and intended to put ‘Predicador’ to her son and daughter ‘Cyanide’, (Cyanide in Spanish) considering it “a precious name” with positive connotations, since cyanide was the poison that ended Adolf Hitler’s life.
A family judge ruled that the mother was prohibited from giving that name to her daughter, alleging that she was not acting in an appropriate way to ensure the well-being of her children. After challenging the jury’s ruling, a second trial took place this Thursday, which upheld the previous judge’s decision.
One of the judges, Eleanor King, said it was “one of those rarer cases” in which she had had to intervene. “It is difficult to see how the girl can bear the name of the deadly poison as anything more than a complete rejection of her by her biological mother,” he added.
Luckily, the girl did not finally bear the name Cyanide (we don’t know if she was also prevented from calling her son Preacher), but the sad thing is that due to their mother’s drug problems, the twins have been sent to foster homes. .
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