Foster parents pressure 16-year-old foster kid to change his name from Ryder to Ryan, claims his name is inappropriate: 'They would like me to strongly consider it so I could have the chance at a professional future'

• It is especially cruel to tell a kid whose name is their connection to their estranged family members that their name is not acceptable, and that's precisely what the foster parents in this story did to the 16-year-old boy in their care. He's had so much taken away from him already, and now this?

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  AITA for not being open to the idea of changing my first name like my foster parents suggested?

  
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