Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.08 10/3/83; site psuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!akgua!sb1!sb6!bpa!burdvax!psuvax!zaccone From: zaccone@psuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: What's in a name? Message-ID: <443@psuvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 22:01:40 EST Article-I.D.: psuvax.443 Posted: Sun Feb 5 22:01:40 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 22:39:08 EST Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 18 A while back, there was some discussion about how some couples have dealt with the issue of not changing the wife's name after marriage. However, I don't remember there being any discussion about what names the children take if the father and mother have different last names. 1. How have people dealt with this issue? 2. If the child gets the last name of just one of the parents, how does one maintain a family identity? (Now there's one person with a different name than the rest). I've considered a number of different possibilities and none seem acceptable. I'm interested in a solution that is not sexist and is acceptable to individual family members, and the family as a unit. -- Rick Zaccone Penn State University {akgua, allegra, burdvax, ihnp4}!psuvax!zaccone