Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!mmk From: mmk@brunix.UUCP (Matthew Kaplan) Newsgroups: net.women,net.kids Subject: Re: What's in a name? Message-ID: <6492@brunix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 09:45:47 EST Article-I.D.: brunix.6492 Posted: Thu Feb 9 09:45:47 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Feb-84 01:03:35 EST References: yeti.142, <6816@watmath.UUCP> Lines: 21 There's a much simpler solution. Simply restrict yourself to having children only with people who share your last name. The trivial way to accomplish this is to form surname "clubs", that have regular meetings which provide their members with an pool of appropriate spouses (spice?)/ mates. In large cities this would be quite satisfactory. However, many might consider this solution a bit restrictive. A better solution would be for a couple to change their names to a neutral one (say, Jones) before bearing children. This solution has the advantage that, if everybody changes their names to the same thing (say, Jones) then in a generation (more likely two, because there is always a group of people who do their best to hold back social progress on all fronts, and will, therefore, refuse to change their names) everybody will be called the same thing (say, Jones) and the whole name changing business can go away. Still another solution is to have a correspondence between one's name and phone number. This might be preferred by some, because the whole family gets a new name when it moves (unless to prefers to keep its previous phone number) so people who don't like their name don't have to feel they're stuck with it forever.