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Originally posted by ADPiShannan
I do have a question to all the girls out there who hate the idea of taking their husbands last name. If you keep your own and then you and your husband have children, whos last name will they get? Wont that be a pain to go around with teachers and people unsure of what name to call you.
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I don't "hate the idea" of taking my husband's name. I have personal and professional reasons why keeping my family name would be in my best interests. I don't think this means that I'm not a "family" girl--I think it means that I want to maintain my ties to my family of origin as well as to my new family.
From the experience of my family, I have a pretty good idea of how this would go. My mother hyphenates personally, but she maintained throughout our academic career (by signing papers and introducing herself to the teachers and communicating with them on a regular basis) exactly what she should be called. Since she and my father visited my school on a regular basis, there was no mistaking whatsoever what the story was in the Munchkin household. My sister didn't change at all--with all of the different family structures that are so common now, the teachers and my niece and nephew's friends' parents know what's up. No confusion here.
Since children are at least a decade away, if ever, I'm not going to lose sleep as to what to call these little ova.
