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There are many practical reasons why the children, mother and father should all share the same last name. Whether that name is the mother's or the father's is up to the couple. But for me, I would never marry a woman who wouldn't willingly and enthusiastically take my last name. Any woman who has a problem with that doesn't deserve to be married to me. When a woman won't take her husband's name, it says a lot about her worldview and her attitude toward men and marriage. A woman like that is not worthy of a lifetime commitment from a good man.
The institution of marriage is in deep trouble today, largely because more and more men are deciding not to get married because marriage is too risky and costly for men now and the benefits of marriage enjoyed by men of the past have largely disappeared. Having a wife and children share his family name is one of the few remaining benefits of marriage to a man now. Take that away and it will be one of the last nails in the coffin for marriage.
When she married him, she took on his name. Any children that are born should also take on the name of the father, since the mothers new last name is also the fathers last name.
In some cultures, a couple will combine the two last names with a hyphen; the husbands name will come first, then the wife's last name. When they have a child, they take on both parents last names, since they combined them at marriage.
The only real time you see the mother's last name being the child's last name is when the mother is not married. In most of these cases, the father helped get her pregnant, but refused to take responsibility; there are also cases where the mother does not wish to have the father in the child's life.
these are the main instances, and reasons why you would go, one way or the other with the last name of a child.
That's a decision for the two parties who are involved or the person who chooses to stay involved.
It also depends on your country or state what the rules are for that. In some states, the parent (s) can make up a surname if they choose.
I quite like a hyphenated surname of my own and the father's, which is common in some cultures.
for me it doesn't matter, a name is only a name, as long as you tell your children as much about their family as you can,
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Well I think you're right in a lot of different ways but if a man is in his child's life and every man should be and should be responsible for that that child didn't the child should have the Man's last name but if the man is a dick and it's not in that child's life and does not help financially or emotionally then I think the mother has the right to either use her last name or her father's last name
One of the reasons traditionally that the children would take the father's last name is because it's obvious who the mother is, but the father never knows for sure.
So the name helps tie the child to the father, both publicly and for the father.
Even now, it's quite easy for a mother to leave a father with very little legal binding to a child if she chooses not to name him on a birth certificate and is not married.
Simply none of my business, or yours.
This is a parental choice, its up to the parents to work out what they are going to do its nothing to do with anybody else.
You can have an opinion if you want but as you have no say all you are doing by expressing it is making yourself look like a twat, much better to just leave it alone.
I know that most men will say fathers name and some woman will say mothers name but i guess i feel if it depends on if your married and if you are just dating and if you are old school, i think woman should keep their own names and just do as they please.
"they never want a man's last name who they claim did nothing to make that child", as in "making the child"? cause im pretty sure you are pretty much useless without sperm to "make a child", also it's mostly always the dad who takes care of the child financially so yeah the child should always have the father's name as a last name unless in the case of divorce.
If the father bounced prior to the child's birth then no, he doesn't get to have that kid named after him. I took my husband's name, so I'd name the kid after him.
I really didn’t want to choose either. But I wanted to say - really it’s easiest if the parents are never going to be together for the child to have the last name of the primary parent.
Whatever is easier to spell and pronounce. You don't want your kid to spend a lot of time correcting the pronunciations or spend a lot of time writing the name in the exam. Its frustrating, trust me on that.
I don't care. But if they're married, the father because the mother should have the husband's name (or at least a hyphenated double-last name).
My children would have my last name because I would be married to their mother. If they want to change it when they turn 18 then that is their choice.
The child’s government handler’s serial number with a dash number should be its name.
Whats the goal of your family?
To me its to build something.
Name me an empire thats been built by an amazon. Name a civilization built that put females first.
My kids have both. Me and OH aren't married so our kids have double barreled surnames
The way things and society is going, it will eventually come down to who's name they want.
The kid should just have a number for a last name, that way nobody gets offended.
In multi partners women do not who is the father of the child so they put their name with child name but in mostly father's name is added at the end of child name
When married, the child must have the same surname as the father. In case of divorce, the child should take the surname of whoever will stay.
I honestly don't know. Neither seems fair. And hyphenation would get very out-of-hand very quickly.
I’ll say this if it’s a girl give her the moms last name if it’s a boy then the dads last name
If they ain't married and the father runs away it should be the mothers
If they have the child together then it should be the fathers
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