From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!csu-cs!silver Newsgroups: net.women Title: Keeping the maiden name Article-I.D.: csu-cs.2051 Posted: Wed Feb 23 12:43:16 1983 Received: Thu Feb 24 02:09:41 1983 My wife was first a posslq. We married four years ago with little fanfare and agreed that she should no more become Ms. Silverstein than I should change to Mr. Carlton. There have been surprisingly FEW problems; we are quite used to explaining the situation as required before any confusion arises. It's mostly how you feel about it yourselves, that is, how you can handle the occasional mistakes and misunderstandings that inevitably happen. Of course, naming the kids brings up new and wonderful dilemnas. We've settled on using my last name; don't know yet if that'll cause problems later. (As you can see, hyphenation was out of the question...)