I disagree. Our obligation should be to report what is reported. Not to obscure merely for the sake of some rather ill-defined notion of "privacy" or some such thing.
Do you think we should not report the names of the children of Edward III who died as infants? I think it's interesting to see what he and his wife named each of his children. In addition, if a biography subject had no children, one child, or 12 children, is very important to presenting a full picture of the person.
Children have a great impact on parents. If our sources discuss the children, then we should as well. If they don't, then we shouldn't either.
Will Johnson
In a message dated 2/22/2009 1:23:12 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com writes:
Why do you say that? In most cases we should not mention children by name.
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