Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!saquigley From: saquigley@watdaisy.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.women,net.kids Subject: What's in a name Message-ID: <6494@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 16:13:50 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6494 Posted: Sat Feb 11 16:13:50 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Feb-84 03:52:55 EST Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16 The following is a letter I received. I gathered from its grammar that it was actually meant to be posted rather than mailed to me. From watmath!ihnp4!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!oliveb!toml Fri Feb 10 12:19:58 1984 Date: 9 Feb 1984 13:50:06-??? (Thu) I hate to disagree with Sophie, but her suggestion that we make up a new last name for children is a poor one. A child's name belongs to the child, not to the parents. Parents may do what they wish with their own names, but the child's name should be the one the child would choose. When *kids* want different names from their parents, then and only then should they be assigned different names. Tom Long