Did your mother keep or change her name when she got married?

[Oakvale]

She kept it.

No problem with this tradition, but it's more widespread than I'd expect considering it's basically pointless.

Yes. I guess it could be a fairly obvious lingering little bit of patriarchy if you wanted to make an argument of it though.

[Oakvale]

My mother changed her name, but that was in 1957. My wife kept hers when we married in 1988. My children have my wife's middle name and my last name. My wife's middle name was her mother's family name so it created a parallel matrilineal series to the patrilineal last name.

It 'created' nothing of the sort. Call yourself a Republican?

I'm gay but, God, I hope someone primaries and defeats you in IL-Nowhere. Your wife should take your name when she married you; that she hasn't and you didn't insist on it shows what a cretin RINO you are. Societal norms are there for a reason.

Good post, buddy.