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Should a Woman Take Her Husband's Name?
What do you think? Will you change your name? Take our reader poll.
*According to Shahin Gerami, professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Southwest Missouri State University, in Muslim Middle-Eastern countries Iran, Yemen, Jordan and Syria women do not typically change their last names with marriage.
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Displaying comments 1 to 10 out of 10
| CrystalA. | |
| I will keep my last name...with no disrespect to my husband. I am proud of who I am, and where I came from. I don't believe a woman should have to give up her identity. It would also be easier for my career. I'm just happy with who I am! | |
| nicole007 -- San Diego | |
| I don't know if I'll take my husband's last name or not (if I even get married). But years ago I wouldn't even go on a date with someone who had a bad last name just because I didn't want my name to end up being Nicole Hornswaggle or something. If that was the case and the man of my dreams had a real crappy last name I definitely would not take it! | |
| MsApril -- Madison | |
| I'm all about equality and independence but this is tradition. I think it's rude NOT to take his family name. I'm engaged now and could not look my fiance's family in the eye if I didn't -- it's like having one foot out the door. | |
| lily -- Los Angeles | |
| It makes me really sad to think that my last name won't be carried on. I like it and I think someone else should have it too. I'm not sure what's going to happen when the time comes because I don't think my boyfriend would care if I kept my name. | |
| JaeRae -- South | |
| I think it should be up to the woman, but for me, personally, I would not... I am a single mother and my son has my last name - I love the fact that he will carry on my family last name! Besides, marriage is very overrated these days; I've been with my sweetie for almost 8-years, no rush to get married and I don't need a piece of paper to validate my love; but I do like the idea of a celebration (wedding) and a fat diamong ring! | |
| secondfloorgirl | |
| I LOVE my last name! If I get married, I would want him to consider taking my name, and I would consider hyphenating, but there's no way I'd ditch it completely. I can appreciate tradition, but my heritage is really important, and any guy I would consider marrying wouldn't have a problem with that :) | |
| lexie | |
| I love the combination of my first and last name. It has such a ring to it. I am definitely considering keeping it. | |
| jazminsmommy -- Greenbrier | |
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i will be hypenating my name i will keep my last name and hypenate his name
| uwishtoo | |
| I am a 50 year old female and everytime I hear a hyphenated name I just want to roll my eyes and sigh. It is not only a slap in the face to say to the man, well, gee, I will marry you but I dont want anyone to know as well as totally pretentious. I kept my ex husbands last name after only 4 years of marriage. I never thought of going back to my maiden name - I was married to him and it was a part of me. Those that say they keep it for professional reasons are totally being pretentious. Letterheads and business cards can be changed and new names easily known to anyone in business. | |
| Krissy! | |
| No! | |
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