I’m curious as to what the actual effect of the SAVE act will be. Women skew Democratic, but what about women who have changed their names? I would guess that both women who never marry and women who keep their names after marriage skew Democratic significantly more heavily than those who change their names.
I would think so.
My wife and three daughters all kept their birth surnames after marriage and most other women I know in my generation who did so are fairly liberal.
We double-barrelled after extensive back and forth. I agreed with my wife that she should keep her name as well (that raised a few eyebrows in Brazil as they are very patriarchical).
Naming conventions in Brazil and Spain are inflexible still, which makes choosing last names a bit of a problem after marriage (Spain and Portugal also have inverted naming conventions for mother/father last names which the Portuguese Consul General in Rio ended up explaining a bit to me as we were a pretty unique case)
The UK is way easier in that regard as you can choose any name you want (you can even change your name via deed poll if need be)
And we have the situation in Quebec, like France, where women usually keep their birth surname.
I have not seen any statistics but it seemed very common in my generation for professional women in Canada to keep their birth surname after marriage. Anecdotally, I don’t thing the prevalence might be as high in subsequent generations. My daughters seem exceptional in this respect but they may have been influenced by their parents.
At our/your age, that’s pretty liberal.
My spouse changed their name because their surname was about the worst english/scottish name you could get. Mispronounced, mispelled, etc. And we both agreed that a unified last name kind of binds the family together, and that’s kind of our thing. Still, it’s a stupid outdated ritual.
What I see some folks doing these days is, everyone keeps their own names. Kids get the parents surnames as a middle name and last name.
So Bob Smith and Angela Jenkins have little Amanda Jenkins Smith or Amanda Smith Jenkins. Now that actually makes sense to me.
The only naming convention I’ve seen that I like better, was they guy who named all his kids after Greek gods. That’s pretty cool.
My London daughter did that with our youngest granddaughter and, much to my delight, used Cooke for her daughter’s surname rather than the father’s surname. There was no pushback from her partner as he also chose his mom’s, rather than his dad’s, surname for himself. My London granddaughter is the only one of my five grandchildren with the Cooke surname.
Shared by one of my high school classmates on Facebook:
[tl/dr]Up yours[/tl/dr]
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Because, it wasn’t sent, because it does not exist?
Again, Facebook is not news.
I can always wait until a news source, who checks sources before publishing, publishes this.
Until then, whatev’s to this.
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Whether it’s real or not, I appreciate the sentiment.
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Yeah, in an “old man yelling at clouds” kinda way.
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You know me too well.
And get off my lawn!
It might not be true that a District Superintendent sent such a letter.
I feel statements like these are truths whether or not such a letter was written.
Actions speak louder (I said, ironically).
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