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Do the kids get mom's name, or dad's? How about alternating

One writer explains how she and her husband chose their daughters' last names.
Katharine Mieszkowski

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  • Friday, January 13, 2006 01:53 PM

    still a man's name

    Go ahead an alternate last names. You've now given one of your children the last name of your husband, and the other the last name of your father. That's certainly a blow to patriarchy.

    —PunditGuy Read PunditGuy's other letters

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