Ryan has always had a few rules about names which I was informed of before we got married.
1. We will call our child by the name we give them. IE - Joshua is not Josh, he is Joshua.
2. We will not name a child anything that will foresee-ably get them teased or singled out. (IE Crystal Shanda Leer, and other wacky names you may have heard of.)
Well it looks like Ryan was right all along. Some researchers in Pennsylvania determined that Boys with unusal names are more likely to commit crimes as adolescents.
Check out the news article HERE
5 comments:
Very interesting... I guess we won't have a Kareem Johnston after all:)
I guess if I ever had a boy I couldn't name him Nick... Cole
When I heard about that study it made me worry about two of my nephews, Capper and Asher.
I love my sister, but she has the opposite philosophy about names.
Ryan
Ryan-
Are you worried about our boys too? I guess it's a little different story since Taisei and Kazuma is a perfectly normal {I mean common} names in Japan, just not here. But they will most likely be raised here, the story makes me worry... :-(
Names are important! I've always known that. This just proves it! :)
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