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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Help me understand why most women who choose not to change their names when they get married still choose to give their children their husband's last name? It just seems like if you choose to give up an old tradition of taking your husband's last name, why would you choose your husband's last name for your children? I'm not criticizing. Really. I'm just trying to understand...[/quote] Just found this, I am not going to read the previous pages.

I did not change my name and we choose to give our children their father’s last name.  We had thought about hyphenating, but it would have been too long.  When we married we thought about both changing our names to a combination of our names, but that did not work very well either.   It was a compromise to give them DH’s last name.  In the end we had two boys, and both have their first name from my parent’s name.  We gave our older son my mother’s maiden name and my younger son my Dad’s first name.  Older son’s middle name is DH’s mother’s maiden name and younger son’s middle name is DH’s father’s name.

If I had known about the tradition of having two middle names for formal occasions.  I would have had my last name be that second middle name.

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