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From: morphy@arrester.cco.caltech.EDU (Jones Maxime Murphy)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Name Change After Marriage
Keywords: name change
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Date: 28 Aug 90 04:38:55 GMT
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This whole name change debate is missing the point. There should be no
last names, period. We should abolish these silly relics of a
barbaric, patriarchal era. Then, couples won't have to worry about
which name to change, or give the kids, or whatever. My roommate, who
is from India, has only one name. He tells me that in his ethnic
group, the Tamils, this is common. It is also common in Myanmar(Burma)
and parts of Indonesia and Mongolia.