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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you're over thinking the name problem.

I'm an adoptive mom, and we did give our child an American name. But she was an infant, not a 4-yr-old, & we kept her birth name as a middle name.

However, in the DC area, the diversity of names in schools is incredible; I can almost guarantee your daughter will not stand out among her school peers.

Also, on the hiring side, my workplace has a call center that mostly hires young women straight out of college, and there've been more "stripper names" than I can count. They're just so common among young people today, you'd eliminate too much of the hiring pool.

If you don't like to say her name, come up with a nickname you like. (I love my daughters name, but I call her something else half the time, anyway.)

Also, other posters are correct: you really need to get over your distaste for her mom's background. Really. She needs to feel like you [b]respect her origins, not like it's a taint you're saving her from.[/b][/quote]

She has already been saved from her origins since she was placed in fostercare and her biological parents rights were terminated so she could be available for adoption. [/quote]

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