Is this child abuse?

stockhausen · 29 Nov 2018 at 22:00

Traci Redford and her daughter, Abcde (pronounced ab-si-dee), were en route home to El Paso, Texas, from California's John Wayne Airport when a Southwest Airlines' Gate Agent allegedly began laughing and took a photo of the child's boarding pass and posted it online.

Why on Earth would anyone name their child after the first five letters of the alphabet?
Maybe she already had children called Qwertyuiop and Aeiou . . .

Dirk Diggler · 29 Nov 2018 at 22:04

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

arknor · 29 Nov 2018 at 22:23

sure the stupidest parents ever, probably thought they could get some financial gain out of it from early learning sponsors or something.

must feel nice when you realise your parents couldn't be bothered to decide on a name so just took the first 5 letters from the alphabet instead.

They could have atleast gone with qwerty and made up some ridiculous pronunciation

Dis86 · 29 Nov 2018 at 22:24

Depends, was it filmed and a video shared with news-sites?

Raz · 29 Nov 2018 at 22:39

The DM headline included the fact that she has epilepsy. Like that had anything to do with it...

RetiredGreyFox · 29 Nov 2018 at 23:12

Somebody at our hospital called their baby C-Enna

Zefan · 29 Nov 2018 at 23:25

I think the proposition that it is child abuse - or at the very least a form of neglect - is perfectly reasonable. It's certainly not what I'd call responsible parenting.

:edit: I don't really know what that means though. When I say this, I mean I don't know what I think, if anything, should be done about it.

enkoda · 30 Nov 2018 at 00:00

Isn't this simply a case of parents giving their kid a weird name so they don't have to buy stupid souvenirs with names on from gift shops?

Yadda · 30 Nov 2018 at 00:17

She'll be first on the class register (until aab-si comes along).

Zenduri · 30 Nov 2018 at 00:29

arknor said:
sure the stupidest parents ever, probably thought they could get some financial gain out of it from early learning sponsors or something.

Except there are 328 people in the US with the name abcde so i guess being an idiot parent is a bit common lol

kedge · 30 Nov 2018 at 04:16

Looks like dyslexia at first glance, I name that child Abacus.

robin66 · 30 Nov 2018 at 06:34

stockhausen said:
Why on Earth would anyone name their child after the first five letters of the alphabet?
Maybe she already had children called Qwertyuiop and Aeiou . . .

I guess it could have been worse. If they had named them 12345?

Roland Butter · 30 Nov 2018 at 06:58

As any fule kno Abcde is a common name among Southwesterm USA native americans, Apache mainly.

wez130 · 30 Nov 2018 at 07:22

Yadda said:
She'll be first on the class register (until aab-si comes along).

Or Aaron

Clearcut · 30 Nov 2018 at 07:22

That's the world we live in now. Give your child a stupid name and make the article about the nasty person that laughs at it.

peterwalkley · 30 Nov 2018 at 07:45

robin66 said:
I guess it could have been worse. If they had named them 12345?

At least they would always remember the combination to their luggage.

Pawnless Endgame · 30 Nov 2018 at 08:12

I wouldn't call it child abuse because I don't think that the age is relevant. If an employee doesn't know how to pronounce a name, just kindly ask. Instead, Southwest made a mockery of this and they got what they deserved - bad press.

stockhausen · 30 Nov 2018 at 08:59

I wonder what the result would be if the parents of a child with uncertain parentage decided to call it something a bit like "Bustard" say?

Yadda · 30 Nov 2018 at 10:08

wez130 said:
Or Aaron

Yes indeed.

Or Aardvark.

wolfie138 · 30 Nov 2018 at 10:08

child abuse - do you mean him laughing at her, or naming her that in the first place?

Is this child abuse?

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