Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!h-sc1!desjardins From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.religion,net.singles Subject: Re: marriage = commitment Message-ID: <424@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 10:28:37 EDT Article-I.D.: h-sc1.424 Posted: Fri Jul 5 10:28:37 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 06:28:17 EDT References: <508@ttidcc.UUCP> <485@oliveb.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 14 Xref: watmath net.philosophy:2022 net.religion:7206 net.singles:7672 > > 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