Have you heard that a couple divorced due to “irreconcilable differences” and wondered what those differences were? Maybe they just couldn’t agree on stuff like money, values, dogs versus cats, or Taco Bell.
Or it could also be CHILDREN, but probably NOT for THIS reason . . .
A couple in Shanghai, China has filed for divorce after two years of marriage, because they had a baby boy last year, and couldn’t agree on a name.
That might sound minor, but both sides INSISTED on a name, refused to budge, and without a name, a birth certificate couldn’t be issued. So a lot of important things were stuck in limbo, even basic medical procedures.
In the year since the boy’s birth, the hospital tried to issue a makeshift birth certificate, and the court tried to FORCE the parents to get their stuff together for the sake of the kid. But nothing worked on these people.
Now, on top of everything else, since they’re divorcing over this, there’s also a custody battle over the boy, whatever his name is.
(In modern day America, there’s an “unspoken rule”: If the parents can’t agree on a name, they’re just given default names: A girl is named Olivia, and a boy is named Liam. End of debate.)
