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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to say that I am surprised at some of these responses, and must assume that many come from outside the dc metro area.  I didn't change my name, my husband couldn't care less, and it has never been the slightest problem in connection with my children.  OUr local public school is full of moms with different last names,either because they chose not to, or because culturally it is not done, for example Hispanic and Asian moms.[/quote]

+1 Changing your surname is a pretty distinctly Anglo/American thing, so if you are in a school with a large international population, it is going to be significantly less common. It's fairly myopic to assume that every culture has the same "traditions" as the United States, and there are a good many people in the United States who have been here for generations and do not have name changing as part of their "tradition."

I mean, there are plenty of kids in my children's school that don't even share a last name with either of their parents because that's not how naming culture works where they come from. [/quote]

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