[gcruse]

Yesterday I read about a married couple so progressive that the wife not only kept her maiden name, but their daughters carried the mother’s name and their sons carried their dad’s.

It’s sort of like building divorce in as you go along, I guess.

[VeritatisSplendor]

Yesterday I read about a married couple so progressive that the wife not only kept her maiden name, but their daughters carried the mother’s name and their sons carried their dad’s.

That would be VS and me. And we're coming up on 25 years in May - happily.

Mrs VS

[AnAmericanMother]

That actually was the custom in Scandinavia back to the dawn of recorded history. Didn't seem to have any effect on the divorce rate. It's only recently that marriage has fallen out of favor there.

But for a couple of 20th century Americans not of Scandinavian heritage to just do it out of the blue . . . probably just a coincidence.

[logos]

Think about the utter foolishness of retaining one's maiden name, as in Lydia Smith-Jones. In order to cast off the burden of one man's name, you take on two men's names, adding your father's name to the name of your groom.

Feminism, thy name is foolishness.