Choosing the name of the future baby is a complicated task and one that parents do not always agree on. Sometimes they wait for the baby to be born to find the perfect name, and in others they end up choosing the family, the coincidences of the destination, the trends of that year … or the followers of Facebook!
This is what happened to the future baby of Arizona parents. The father, an admirer of the animated series “Dragon Ball” (Dragon Ball), was challenged by his wife to get 1,000 “likes” on his publication to be able to call his son Goku. No sooner said than done. Now the fourth baby of this family will be called Goku Sánchez.
A challenge that has reached one and a half million likes
Carlos Sánchez is from Arizona, has three children and is a fervent admirer of the Japanese animated series “Dragon Ball”. So much so that he dreamed of being able to name his fourth son Goku, the protagonist of the series.
So his wife challenged him to post a picture on Facebook and get a million likes . If she did, she would agree to call her baby that. Carlos published the photograph a week ago on his Facebook profile, where he was seen holding a sign that said: ” My wife has told me that if I have a thousand likes, I can call our son Goku ” and asked for collaboration by sharing the image .
In just 24 hours, the publication went viral, exceeding one and a half million “likes” and being shared by almost 200,000 people, who have helped Carlos achieve a challenge that, we suppose, his wife believed was unattainable.
And so that no one doubts that the baby will finally be called Goku, Carlos has created a Facebook page called “Awaiting Goku’s arrival”, where both he and his followers leave comments and videos of the curious story of this baby’s name.
Choosing the baby’s name
We saw a long time ago that, according to a survey, a fifth of parents regret in some way the name they gave their children and even avoid calling them in public. In addition, they confirm that if they could choose again, they would give them other names .
Choosing the name of a child is more important than we think, and sometimes there have been situations in which the judges have had to intervene to prohibit parents from calling their babies as they had intended.
And it is that the right of parents to choose the name of their baby is subject to some legal limits, since a bad exercise of this freedom, sometimes thoughtless or arbitrary, could affect the dignity of the newborn .
In this specific case, we do not know if the parents will finally put into practice what was promised in their challenge and if so, we will not know if the child will feel comfortable with their name or if, on the contrary, the parents will end up regretting the choice in a future.
In any case, I believe that choosing a baby’s name should obey other more sensible and rational criteria than winning a challenge of these characteristics through Facebook. Don’t you think?
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Via The Mail
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