Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site linus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!peg From: peg@linus.UUCP (Margaret E. Craft) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: kids and parents with different last names Message-ID: <1128@linus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 21:57:27 EDT Article-I.D.: linus.1128 Posted: Mon Oct 1 21:57:27 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 04:00:24 EDT References: <1100@ihuxi.UUCP> Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, Ma. Lines: 22 You avoided the question: why does it make more sense for the woman to take the man's name than the other way around? You said you'd object "vehemently" if your wife had "refused" to take on your last name... Sound to me like you're into ownership, not partnership... Yes, there's "tradition" behind the woman losing her name, but i think many of us see tha tradition as presentative of an attitude that has changed, and should change even more - namely, a move toward equaity in a relationship. And as for you comment about the submitter being the exception - i don't know where YOU live, but it is certainly NOT "exceptional" for women to keep their given names around here. The only thing you said that DID make sense had to do with families being conhesive units - but to you that meant having the same last name!! pretty narrow view of togetherness... perhaps we should all dye our hair the same color too...