A New Zealand judge has slammed parents who called their child Talua Does the Hula from Hawaii. He ordered she be given a more suitable name, a newspaper reported last week.
“It makes a fool of the child,” Family Court Judge Rob Murfitt said. He ruled that the nine-year-old be made a guardian of the court until she gets a new name.
The girl is the subject of a custody battle between her separated parents. She told the judge she was so embarrassed she had not told her given name to her friends. She feared being mocked and teased, the Taranaki Daily News reported.
The judge told the paper that Family Court judges were upset by many names that parents were giving their children. He mentioned twins named Fish and Chips and Benson and Hedges (a brand of cigarettes).
Other names included Number 16 Bus Shelter, Midnight Chardonnay, Fat Boy, Beauty Blossom and Got Lucky, he said.
(DPA)
上週有平面媒體報導指出,紐西蘭一位法官強烈抨擊一對給孩子取名為「跳夏威夷草裙舞的塔魯娃」的父母,並下令要求他們幫女孩改個合適一點的名字。
家事法庭的法官羅伯.墨菲特說:「這個名字讓孩子覺得很糗。」他裁定這名九歲小女孩在改用新名前,都由法院監護。
《塔拉納奇日報》報導,這個女孩離異的父母正在爭奪她的監護權。她告訴法官,因為太難為情了,所以她都不跟朋友說她的名字,她怕自己會被嘲笑戲弄。
這位法官對該報表示,家事法庭的法官對許多父母替他們小孩取的名字感到不以為然。他提到有雙胞胎被取名為「炸魚」和「薯條」,還有「班森」和「海吉斯」(一個香菸的牌子)。
他說,其他奇怪的名字還包括「十六號公車候車亭」、「深夜夏特內白葡萄酒」、「胖小子」、「美麗的花朵」和「走運」。
(德通社�翻譯:袁星塵)
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