Thread: Should a married couple share the same last name?

And sorry that I didn't get your joke... What I meant was that a woman changing her name goes back to when a wife was considered property, rather than a partner. Times have changed, and so should this practice. Two of my childhood friends found me after many years and I more recently found my boarding school roommate. If any of us had changed our names, that wouldn't have happened. Changing one's name means that you disappear...

In many cultures there is no tradition of women changing names solely because they marry. It's one of the curiously sticky traditions here in spite of changing roles for women in our culture.

Either way it is up to each individual and not for me to say.

Edited on Sun Nov-15-09 10:53 PM by pitohui i guess you don't know that because you're not a woman and apparently never met any i honestly don't know why women change their names but it sure as shit ain't because it's cheap and easy -- even tho millions of women get married in america and large #s still opt to choose to change their name, the law acts like this is the first time it ever happened and the women who...

Edited on Sat Nov-14-09 08:49 PM by stray cat if we have choice over reproductive rights we sure better have a choice in something as minor as a name.