That common sense is the least common of the senses is nothing new, but when it comes to the choice of the name of a child, it does not 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 that will mark them throughout their lives.
But above the right of parents to choose the name they want for their children, is to safeguard the child from wearing a pejorative, humiliating or clearly negative name throughout his life as Cyanide, the name that a mother had chosen for her daughter and that, luckily, a British court prevented.
The woman, from Wales and apparently with mental problems, was the mother of twins and intended to put 'Preacher' to her son and daughter 'Cyanide', (Cyanide in Spanish) for considering him "a beautiful name" with positive connotations, since Cyanide was the poison that ended the life of Adolf Hitler.
A family judge determined to prohibit the mother from giving that name to her daughter, claiming that she was not acting in the proper way to ensure the welfare of her children. After challenging the jury's decision, this Thursday a second trial took place, which ratified the decision of the previous judge.
One of the judges, Eleanor King, said it was "one of those rarest cases" in which he had to intervene. "It's hard to see how the girl can bear the name of the deadly poison as more than a complete rejection of her biological mother," he added.
Luckily, the girl finally didn't carry the name Cyanide (We do not know if he was also prevented from calling his son a Preacher), but the sad thing is that due to his mother's problems with drugs, the twins have been sent to foster homes.
