@rbynaker   

Your observations are priceless – too bad you are casting pearls to swine. Well, OK, that’s probably an unfair description of some subscribers. I think we should take a poll to guess the ethnic origin of the names used in the Examples of the 12-page instructions to Skidmark 8812. Roger, Tiffany, Jane, Tony, and Ivy; along with Susan and John (my daughter and her husband, although he is Jon.)

Here are the Instructions:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-dft/i1040s8--dft.pdf

Here is the 8812:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-dft/f1040s8--dft.pdf