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I don't know why people do anything nor do I care. My SIL was published (academic papers) under her maiden name and continues to use it professionally even though she's been married 25 years and used her married name socially. I changed mine when I got marred 30+ years ago BUT I took my maiden name and made it my middle name, dropping the middle name given to me by my parents. It was Jane, a typical "filler" name in the 50's, and meant nothing to anyone. I preferred that to a hyphen. I didn't have to do anything but change my drivers license and start using it. I'm not Ceece A. Marriedname and even though I'm getting divorced I'm keeping it that way whether I ever remarry or not.
Anytime I have ever encountered a woman with a hyphenated name, turns out she is liberal. Now I have friends who get married and the wife won't even hyphenate her name she just keeps her original name. Now I have never asked any of them why they hyphenate or not take the name of her husband but just guessing here that it has something to do with feminism. I never have run across a conservative woman with a hyphenated name unless she is a prominent figure or is already famous. Now you do see a lot of that with women who are famous or their name is their brand of sorts or even women in business I have seen it there as well. I am amazed on how many women I meet with hyphenated name are liberal, sometime they put there last name first and sometimes they put the husbands name last. I just don't know much about the subject except that majority of hyphenated names tend to be liberal woman. Just an observation anyone with any info on this?
A conservative woman with two last names just gave one of the answering Republican speeches to the President's State of the Nation speech last Tuesday night.
It's a social trend. The U.S. is now catching up to the practice; it has been common in much of the world in other nations for centuries. There are many reasons women do it; among them are the rates of divorce (it's easier for a divorced woman to go back to her maiden name if she never changed it), advantages that come from being a female member of a prominent family (Hillary always calls herself Rodham Clinton. The Rodhams are a very prominent Arkansas family), and nowadays, women who are famous seem to prefer keeping their maiden names even when married, like Maria Shriver.
The only thing that seems to be changing is the use of the hyphen. A lot of combined names sound silly or lumpish when connected with a hyphen, so dropping it allows the woman to use just one, which may be the best sounding. A name like Vivoschlander-Mogus sounds odd, no matter what.
The Brits have a lot of double last names, but very few are hyphenated.
Have you the same ever, ever asked yourself why Spanish, Mexicans, Hispanics or Mexican Americans have about six names in some cases? Didn't think so. nt.
Nope, didn't know that and I grew up in Milwaukee's Latin Quarter, not one of my friends or family members that I knew had 6 names, 5 names, 4 names, 3 names. I never ran into that and my neighborhood is about 90% Hispanic.
I always figured that it was a way to retain a part of her family's identity.
[shrug]
This is exactly why I hyphenated my last name. And our oldest son has my hubby's last name and my youngest has my maiden name. I was the last in our branch of the family and I wanted the family name to carry on.
My hubby wasn't opposed so it's all good
I always figured that it was a way to retain a part of her family's identity.
[shrug]
But it only works for one generation. What happens when Susan Rudzinski-Smith marries John Jones-Hossenpepper. Do you give all four names to the kids? This gets ridiculous fast. It's kind of silly to do something you can't keep doing.
Hyphenating makes sense if she has a professional identity and in the case of a remarriage where there are kids by the first marriage. I hated that my last name was not the same as my mothers.
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