MORE ON NAME-CHANGING AFTER MARRIAGE: Elizabeth Marquardt
I've written about
this on the blog before, but I wish researchers on this topic would consider the divorce culture. My hunch is that women from divorced families (like me) both a) feel less attachment to their surname, which is typically their father's surname. Growing up, it was "their dad's last name" in contrast to their mom who usually had a different last name, and b) because they typically grew up in families where mom and dad had different last names, and stepparents may have had yet a different one, half and step siblings different still, and everything may have changed and changed again with new divorces and remarriages, they nurture a desire to have their own husband, children, and themselves all share a last name. Call it a quirky desire for wholeness…
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[Eve adds: Elizabeth's comments remind me of
this touching column about being a "junior."]
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