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From: gall@nexus.yorku.ca (Norm Gall)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Name Change Upon Marriage?
Keywords: marriage names
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Date: 27 Aug 90 23:58:12 GMT
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hars@pws.bull.com (Adele Hars) writes:

| A question -- what do you name your kids?  I favor hypenation, but in a few
| generations, that could get a little long...  any thoughts?  Maybe they'll
| just work it out.

My wife and I have decided to use the Icelandic tradition of changing
the last names of the children.  My name is Norman Gall and my Wife's
is Andrea McIntosh.  Our male children will have the last name
Normansen (son of Norman) and our female children will have the last
name Andreadottir (daughter of Andrea).  This defeats easy
identification of family (but most Western family names are
unnecessarily male oriented anyway), but does provide identification
with the gender of the child.  Icelanders (at least those
that lived in New Iceland in Manitoba) didn't change their last names
upon marriage anyway.


Norm Gall
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