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wtf? [b]So either I'm named after my DAD or my HUSBAND?[/b] How is either less sexist? I personally loved taking DH's name. It's a worse name than my maiden name, but it means a lot that we're the same last name and will have children share our name. [/quote]

No. Choose one of these options:

1. You have your father's last name and your husband has his father's last name. (In that case, when you change your name upon marriage, you are giving up your father's name and taking your father-in-law's last name.)
2. You have your own last name and your husband has his own last name. (In that case, when you change your name upon marriage, you are giving up your own name and taking your husband's name.)

But there is no way that you can give up your father's last name and take your husband's name -- unless you believe that women can't have their own last names?[/quote]

Thank you. I really hate the argument that a woman is deciding between her father's last name and DH's last name. The name on my birth certificate is MINE. [/quote]

That argument rests on the assumption that only men own their names, and women are always just borrowing them from some man.  In fact, my name is my name.  Yeah, it's the same as my dad's last name, but it's MY name, that I have had since birth and used for decades.  It's as much my name as my husband's last name is his last name, even though it's the same as his dad's.  [/quote]

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