Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxf!features From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (aMAZon) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Name Changes a case history Message-ID: <2678@ihuxf.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 15:09:48 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxf.2678 Posted: Mon Aug 26 15:09:48 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 28-Aug-85 20:14:09 EDT References: <314@tekla.UUCP> <4206@alice.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 14 > Suppose both spouses keep their names and hyphenate the kids. > Said kids grow up and marry other similarly-hyphenated people. > What do they name THEIR kids? > > Perhaps both spouses should choose a (shared) new surname > when they marry? Perhaps kids should choose a new (non-hyphenated) > surname when they leave their parents? Don't the Spanish folks do something like this? I mean, incorporate the mother's last name as a middle name or something for the kids? Someone who knows more about this than me, help us out. -- aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features