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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.
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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
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