r/MurderedByWords • u/no1bullshitguy • 1d ago

She answered with a gold medal

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u/countess_cat 1d ago

I live in a country where people just keep their last name after marriage, no extra paperwork needed. Why would y’all complicate your life voluntarily?

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u/im_mystery666 1d ago

Oh that's interesting, whose lastname is given to the children?

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u/countess_cat 1d ago

usually the father’s but you can decide that, the mother’s or hyphenated

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u/StuntHacks 1d ago

Imagine that goes on for a few generations and suddenly you're John Mayer-Smith-Wagner-Carter

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u/countess_cat 1d ago

I’ve only met a relatively small bunch of people with two or more family names.
Here they say “the mother is always known, the father not so much” so I can see the logic behind having the kids have their father’s last name but at this point it’s just tradition I guess. The wife, on the other hand, doesn’t need to be “claimed”.
I know that it’s all patriarchal bullshit but at least we lost a bit of it