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From: brp@ihopb.UUCP (Ben Priest)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: kids and parents with different last names
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Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 14:53:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 20 14:53:06 1984
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My wife likes her name so she decided to keep it.  That was fine with me,
since I didn't feel like changing mine.  But what to do about the
names of children is a sticky problem.

If you give the child both names with a hyphen, then the poor kid has
to write out this lon name all the time.  It's a drag.
If the kid grows up and gets married and has kid-what name do those
kids take?  Are you going to have a 3 hyphen name?
By the way, changing your name in some states is a real legal hassle
and expensive.

Our solution:
	     Male children take father's last name.
	     Female children take mother's last name.


	     Ben Priest