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Did you notice that?
Method of Madness:
I'm pretty sure over here the parents can give the kid either or both names, regardless of marital status.
pwhodges:
My nephew has both his parents' surnames, but not hyphenated (so I guess one is registered as a forename). They "forgot" to give the older daughter both names, so were particularly concerned to get it right the second time around!
Carl-E:
My wife hyphenated.
The girls both have her maiden name as a second middle name, with my last name as their last name. This was my wife's idea.
The hyphenating's a PITA. 17 letters long... both names are German, too, and no one in the states seems able to pronounce my part, though hers is easy. So when read, they start off fine and never finish...
Method of Madness:
I wasn't saying it's for everyone, just that it's shitty to not allow people to do it.
Storel:
Yeah, but allowing hyphenation for anything can get messy when it starts happening across multiple generations.
For example, if John Smith and Mary Jones get married and become John and Mary Smith-Jones, that's not so bad. But what happens when their kid, Ellen Smith-Jones, marries Fred Wilmington-Smithers? For convenience, perhaps they simply keep their existing names, or exchange some names (Fred Wilmington-Jones and Ellen Smith-Smithers?), but what about their kids? Poor little Paul Smith-Wilmington-Smithers-Jones will probably fall in love with Sue Baker and decide to take her last name when they get married, out of desperation... (God forbid he should marry Nancy Green-Johnson-Bailey-Mortimer.)
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