Re: RE: OT-now Ms. Mrs./married names

The Spanish use hyphenated names e.g. Jose dad's name-mom's name so they
get both families' names in there. I think that sounds more resonable.
The woman does most of the work (giving birth, etc) so I always thought
her name should get some billing...

 
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Melody" <mhobertm@excite.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:00:35 -0500 (EST)

>Kitty:  Well, then the IRS would be forced to accomodate longer hyphenated names, of course!  LOL--what a picture you present!  
>
>Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>
>"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
>--Albert Einstein
>
> --- On Wed 01/29, Kitty < kmrsy@earthlink.net > wrote:
>From: Kitty [mailto: kmrsy@earthlink.net]
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:50:22 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: Re: RE: [CHAT] OT-now Ms. Mrs./married names
>
>Melody,
>Yes, but......
>Supposing your son was named Jeremy Roger Hobert-Mellecker and he
>married my daughter, Diedre Marie Morrissy-O'Shaunessy. And their child
>was then named Morgan Lindsay Morrissy-O'Shaunessy-Hobert-Mellecker and
>he/she married.......
>
>Well, you get the idea.
>
>Kitty
>
>-------Original Message-------
>From: Melody <mhobertm@excite.com>
>Sent: 01/29/03 11:35 AM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: RE: [CHAT] OT-now Ms. Mrs./married names
>
>> 
>> Kitty: I hyphenated my last name...Hobert-Mellecker. I was 25 when I got
>married and didn't feel comfortable giving up my name but also wanted to
>honor my husband's family name. My children have just their dad's last
>name but are always asking me why that is...I don't really have a good
>answer for them. One couple I know did something I didn't even know was
>possible, but which is apparently legal as well...Her last name was
>Johnson, his was O'Mara...now they are both Johnson-O'Mara...Just as it
>is legal for a woman to change her name at the time of marriage, it is
>for a man as well. Their son carries both last names too. If I had known
>before I got married that this was possible, this is probably what my
>husband and I would have done...seems more fitting for a true union,
>don't you think?
>
>
>Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>
>"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
>--Albert Einstein
>
> --- On Wed 01/29, Libby Valentine < LVALENTINE@WORKINGCONCEPTS.COM >
>wrote:
>From: Libby Valentine [mailto: LVALENTINE@WORKINGCONCEPTS.COM]
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:42:10 -0500
>Subject: RE: [CHAT] OT-Reverse sexism< Ms. Mrs.
>
>I kept my name (it is after all, my name), much to the chagrin of the
>clerk
>who did the license.
>
>Libby
>Maryland zone 6
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kitty Morrissy
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Sent: 1/29/2003 7:44 AM
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT-Reverse sexism< Ms. Mrs.
>
>So another qstn for the ladies:  If you are or were married, how did you
>(if you did) change your name?  
>I went from Kathleen Marie Glasch to Kathleen Glasch Strope.
>(At the time my birth name Kitty had early on been changed to Kathleen
>and
>then later changed back to Kitty)
>I know many women who would have gone to Kathleen Marie Strope,
>retaining
>less of their former self.
>
>Kitty
>
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