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He'll be known as Pax Thien now—that's the Latin Pax, meaning "peace" and Vietnamese Thien, meaning "sky." As crunchy-cool as it might sound, child psychology experts aren't sure Earth Mother Ange's decision to rebrand her three-year-old is wise.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger tells Radar that, although the name change might not cause "significant trauma"—not like, say, uprooting Pax from his native country to live with unmarried, movie star parents—the rebranding is baffling. "I don't understand changing his first name when he already identifies with it," Schlessinger says.

Dr. Cynthia Garcia Coll, Professor of Education, Psychology, and Pediatrics at Brown University tells Radar that the name change will likely add to an already difficult adjustment. "Usually three years is thought of as the cut-off upon which many things get crystallized, like gender identity, so they are rather plastic at that age," Garcia Coll says. "However, adopted children might be more vulnerable given their possible histories of many transitions. Changing his name might add to the more difficult transition of changing languages and environments."

In a strange moment of harmony, the big five Brangelina-hunting celebrity weeklies (Star, Us, Life & Style, In Touch, and OK!) acknowledge that Pax started sobbing when The Good Shepherd star and big brother-to-be Maddox arrived at the Tam Bihn Orphanage in Vietnam to whisk the tot off to a new and glorious life. And they agree Ange got down on her knees and whispered the Vietnamese phrase "Khong sao dau, khong sao dau," which means "it's alright" if you're Vietnamese and reading Star, "don't worry" if you're the kind of Vietnamese person who reads Us Weekly, and "no problem, no problem" if you're in Saigon flipping through the pretty pics in OK!.

In a story titled "Yanked Away From the Only Place He Called Home!" Star magazine's Vietnam reporter (that's right), gets a four-page interview with Pax's primary caregiver at the orphanage, a middle-aged woman named Bui Thi Thanh Tueyen, who "tearfully" dishes, "I'm worried for him, he's surrounded by strangers. He can't speak English!"

And he keeps getting his own name wrong.

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