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From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins)
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Subject: Re: marriage = commitment
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Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 10:28:37 EDT
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> 
> Good point.  I know of a couple who decided not to get married, but to
> just  live together.  They had children who kept getting hassled about
> their last name.  It seems that the  school  board  decided  that  the
> children couldn't use their father's last name because he didn't marry
> their mother.  Well, to try and make things easier for their children,
> they   finally   got  married.   That  was  the  end  of  a  beautiful
> relationship.  The fights started and they basicly fell apart.
> 

Why didn't the kids just use their mother's last name?  Seems if you're
going to defy one tradition, you may as well go whole hog.

	marie