Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihopb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!ihopb!brp From: brp@ihopb.UUCP (Ben Priest) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: kids and parents with different last names Message-ID: <613@ihopb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 14:53:06 EDT Article-I.D.: ihopb.613 Posted: Thu Sep 20 14:53:06 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 19:45:09 EDT References: <1231@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 20 <..> 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