If you name your son Adolf Hitler, you should probably expect unwanted attention. Namely, from the Division of Youth and Family Services.
Authorities removed Adolf Hilter Campbell and his sisters from their parents’ Hunterdon County home [in New Jersey], Holland Township police chief David Van Gilson said Tuesday. New Jersey’s Division of Youth and Family Services took the 3-year-old as well as JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 1, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, who turns 1 in April, the chief said. Van Gilson said he didn’t know why the children were taken or who had custody. He said his department received no reports of abuse or negligence. […]
The Campbell family gained worldwide attention after a Dec. 14 story in The Express-Times about the children’s names and a Warren County supermarket’s refusal to write Adolf Hitler on a birthday cake.
Heath Campbell, who’s previously said he picked the names to honor German ancestry and because they are unique, has reported receiving threats after the story was published. [Express-Times]
Paul Raposo
The parents are clearly douchebags; but taking their kids into custody? That is going way too far. The boy may very well be messed up growing up with that name. But how messed up will those kids be if this is how their lives have begun–being taken from their parents? And death threats because of a name? Seriously?
cruiser
What kind of a parent names their child after one of the despised men in history?! Also what type of genius names their child Aryan Nation… do these people not have a clue as to the kind of emotional damage that is going to do the children as they grow up, kids are cruel(as most of us remember from our grade school days)these kids are in for a lot of grief(and not in a good way either)as to removingthe children from the home…what’s up with that, there eveidently were NO reports of ANY kind of abuse(unless you count their names)this seems totally unfounded. Yea the parents are not exactly the brightest bulbs in the box but to remove the children without any kind of provocation or semblance of reason is grossly over the top(for lack of a better way to put it)now not only do these kids have horrible names to live with for the rest of their lives they NOW have to deal with being forcibly taken from their parents & their home. What has this country become?!
blake
The parents are idiots but is there any evidence of child abuse?
Larry
I couldn’t help noticing that the article spelled the boy’s name as “Adolf Hilter.” Sort of reminds me of that Monty Python sketch…
geoff
Sanctity of procreation in action.
Presley
You cannot name a child Adolf Hitler and expect him to lead a normal life.
Sarah Day
These poor children. May God Bless them. And May God Bless those 2 friggen idiot parents they have because they clearly need all the help they can get!
Kid A
You see, homosexuals are evil because they can’t reproduce and name their kids after someone whose name is synonymous with evil.
moo
I’m not sure where I’m going with this but I think in the UK (at least I heard it from somewhere), the registrar working at a General Register Office can refuse to issue a birth certificate if the name is judged inappropriate.
Not a bad idea.
getreal
Even idiots have a right to free speech.If we expect equal rights for all it has to include everyone.If these children were not abused they should be returned immediately.
Grimace
@Kid A: You see, stupidity is evil because it CAN reproduce, regardless of orientation.
Kid A, your homosexual comment was not only completely idiotic but not even true. I hope you were being sarcastic, I really do. That is a MAN named Heath in that picture…you know…a father? Not a woman. Try reading an article in full before spouting your opinion on it. Can you see now that heterosexuals can be JUST as “evil” as the homosexuals you obviously hate. Please don’t reproduce, we don’t need anymore delusional people in the world like you.
Obviously there was some reason they took the kids away, a more complete article on this (on msn.com) states that the agency does not comment on specific cases. This means that everything else you’ve heard is just speculation.
You ASSUME there was no reason to take them away, but you also do not live with them and know what goes on in their house. I’m sure they had a darn good reason. If they were abused, it’s probably better they’re taken away now while they have a chance to reverse any possible “brain-washing”, then to try and do it when the kids goes to school. Schools are more diverse then ever….if the parents are deep into the whole “aryan nation” thing then those kids will most likely harbor hatred for anyone not the same as them and that breeds suppressed rage. Everywhere they go will be people that they supposedly “disapprove” of and they will be old enough to act out on those feelings. Kids are mostly sweet by nature, but given the right environment they can grow to be monsters.
Kid A
@Grimace: You’re a perceptive one, aren’t ya? Try understanding sarcasm in full before spouting your opinion on it.
Grimace
@Kid A: Your original comment still makes absolutely no sense, even in sarcasm. It’s unwarranted and is seemingly out-of-nowhere in context to the previous posts and to the article in general. Perceive reality.
Kid A
I was lampooning the argument made against gays; particularly the one that suggests that gays will diminish marriage and will raise warped children. For some reason, those people seem to selectively ignore shotgun marriages like Britney and K-Fed, and horrible straight parents like these as well.
That is for the sake of clarification. I don’t need to apologize to you for your lack of comprehension. I’d say that your diatribe is more out of place than my flippant contextualizing of the story in terms of gay/straight relationships. Perceive my lack of caring about your picking an absurd fight.
Grimace
@Kid A: Said the person who cared enough to clarify đ Regardless of my misreading your tone, I was actually defending the same view as you, now wasn’t I? That we are all capable of the same evils, no matter what orientation, class, race, religion. Because we are all the same…human. These people in the article above are defiantly a great example of that, I agree.
Side note, not cyber-arguing; Even if the kids were to have a hard time with foster care, they would most likely eventually focus their anger on either the system or their foster parents, manifesting into a general lack of respect and delinquency. If they were to stay with the parents, their hatred would most likely be focused on entire races, religions and they would perpetuate this hateful and outdated frame of mind. They may pull in followers, conspire with groups of people and cause much more chaos on a much larger scale. Of course there are best case scenarios to both sides (they don’t follow their birth parents views or their foster parents are wonderful and nurturing) but as for worse-case scenarios (which a lot of comments seem to be based on) you just gotta pick the better of two evils. Which would you choose for a child? Tough call.
Kid A
@Grimace: For sure, in truth we are on the same page.
I have a few friends like this (well, not like THIS), who got pregnant earlier than they were ready, and ended up treating their child like a novelty. Some young parents treat their kids as a way to express themselves, instead of allowing the kid to become themselves. I don’t know if that’s the case here, but no matter if it’s Adolf Hitler or Princess Di, you shouldn’t name your child so explicitly that they are a tribute to someone else instead of their own person.
Alfredo Munoz
An all to familiar and easy indictment as we hasten to fulfill the Orwellian prophecy i.e. “you are racist”,”you are an
anti-semite” etc.It won’t be long before the re-education camps are implemented.Whatever happened to the First Amendment?Oh wait I see how it works now.
BTW Who was the lame ass that quoted Bishop Tu Tu? How cloyingly trite was that pompous gasp.
Alfredo Munoz
KID A wins this round hands down!Great insight!
Hamburglar
Naming your child Adolf Hitler *is* a form of abuse. Almost certainly not in a legal sense, though.
Charles J. Mueller
Two wrongs don’t a right make!
Liz
@cruiser: and being taken from your family when nothing is wrong isn’t damaging? these kids have been scarred by the establishment. Their names have a meaning now, even if one day, without the racor of people who presume to know what their parents were thinking, might have ‘redeemed’ those names and ideas in the eyes of humanity. But not now. Now, they have been slapped with what society wants, not what their family wants, or what they want. Gods fucking Bless us all.
Albedo
@getreal:
Naming them like that IS abuse.