Should you change your name when you get married? Here are advantages to the different last name options.
1) Woman Takes Her Husband’s Name
- It’s the most socially acceptable option. A woman who changes her name (probably) won't be expected to explain her choice.
- It’s the easiest bureaucratic option. Couples with different last names may encounter problems with insurance, voting records, and so forth.
- Naming the kids is easier. Married couples with different last names have to choose both a first name and a last name for their child.
- Family cohesion. Some couples feel that having the same name is an important part of feeling like a family unit.
2) Women and Man Both Keep Their Names
- Feminist concerns. Women who choose to keep their names often do so because they feel names are an important part of one’s identity.
- Changing your name is a pain. You have to change your Social Security card, driver’s license, passport, credit cards, etc.
- Career concerns. Since many women are getting married at later ages, they have established themselves under their existing name and do not want to change it.
- Easier than hyphenating. People with hyphenated names confuse the bureaucracy and have to do annoying things like spell their name over the phone multiple times.
- Attachment to a name. Some women just plain like their last names and don’t want to give them up.
- It’s not as hard as it used to be. It’s become common enough for a woman to keep her name that many bureaucrats have figured it out.
- If you get divorced, you don’t have to change your name back. Nobody wants to think about this, of course, but keeping your name can be easier if things don’t work out.
3) The Hyphenated Name
Posted by Admin on November 24, 2011 - 6:40 pm
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