It wasn't long ago that children commonly weren't named until they survived two years. Bureaucratic dehumanization is responsible for reinforcing traumas that

It wasn't long ago that children commonly weren't named until they survived two years. Bureaucratic dehumanization is responsible for reinforcing traumas that cultures had already built ways of dealing with. My grandparents' generation reused the names of their children who didn't survive, but today, few couples would consider that with any name they were forced to write on both a birth and death certificate.