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3/4/2020

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When it comes to matters of the heart in relationships, sometimes people get it all wrong. And that's okay because it's how we learn, right? A lesson bought is a lesson taught.

But, the narrative hits a little different when you add children to the mix. Taking your love hits out on the kids is not only the wrong way to handle your break up, it's hurtful, harmful and heart-piercing to the child. It makes the child thinks they have to choose a side..choose one parent to love over the other. And that, is wrong on so many levels.

It's the first spark that leads to the emotional fire that the child will have to endure their entire life. It can evoke mommy issues, daddy hate or life-long feelings of abandonment within the child. They hear mommy attacking the integrity of daddy and experience daddy distancing himself from the child because he can't deal with mommy's stunts. Typical baby momma/baby daddy drama.

Not too long ago on social media, a mother was upset with her baby-daddy because he gave their daughter a beauty day experience and got her hair braided. To prove her anger, the mother humiliated the child by cutting her hair off on the sidewalk of her apartments. The year before, the mother smashed her birthday cake in front of the child because the daddy bought it.

This time, singer, Lyfe Jennings, ranted on social media because actress, Eva Marcille, changed the last name of her daughter to the surname of her new husband, a man who is not the child's father. According to an article in rolling out, Lyfe was outraged.


“I think this is so wack. Changing ya daughter’s last name from her father’s to someone else’s. Especially when the father tries to see her,” he said, according to The Shade Room’s Instagram page. “The daughter don’t have anything to do with their beef. And what kind of man allows this????? S— pissed me off. I expected better out of Eva. S— personal to me. I’ve been there.”

The same article said rapper/actor Lil Scrappy put in his two cents as well.

“Yeah that’s wack af if the dad wants to b in her life I understand moving on but changing ya kid name is like writing her history over and her not knowing where she comes from , she’s black and needs to get it together.”

Well, there always has to be one somebody who flows the opposite of the stream. rolling out noted that an Instagram user had a different feel than Lyfe and Lil Scrappy. He said, “It got changed to the name putting in the most work.” 
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Is that the way things work? Erase a child's past because another person is "doing?"
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Valentin, K 5th
3/4/2020 09:01:24 pm

The mother should not change the last name of her child, specially to some other dudes last name. How will she feel if she was in the opposite situation?, im pretty sure she wouldn’t like it.. She looks like the bad person, if the baby grows up hating her mother I wouldn’t blame her.

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Nate Robles 3rd
3/5/2020 09:21:57 am

I believe that it’s wrong because women have no right to do something like that especially when the kids aren’t okay with it . Couldn’t be me that’s all I have to say .

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Valentin, k link
3/5/2020 08:00:55 pm

The little girl might grow up and question. “Why don’t I have the same last name as my daddy?” And the mom might want to make the father look bad due to her actions

S Jones period 2
3/6/2020 03:11:03 pm

Women have no right and men don’t either.

S Jones period 2
3/6/2020 03:10:14 pm

I agree, imagine if a child last name was to be changed to a new partner’s and whoever and the new partner ends up breaking up. New last name again? I don’t think a child should grow up hating their mother though, you live and you learn.

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Nathaniel Robles period 3
3/5/2020 09:20:19 am

I believe a women shouldn’t change their child’s name if they get into problems. No matter how bad things get , nothing like that should ever take place . Just imagine how the kids feel after knowing or thinking about the last bit of their other parent is out their life. It’s very disappointing for kids to go through this so I disagree with parents changing the last names of their kids .

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S Jones period 2
3/6/2020 03:06:47 pm

Custodial parents should not change their child last name to their new partners. A child biological father signed the birth certificate for a reason, he gave them life as well as you did. Regardless of what’s going on between the mother and father, their child’s last name should never be changed.

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M. Neal 1st link
3/7/2020 08:49:11 am

Custodial parents should not change the name of their children. That’s snatching their whole identity away. Separation from their father is not a valid reason to take that child’s identity away. If the father is not in that kid life so what? He’s still apart of the kid. Children need to know where they come from, including both sides.

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