Imagine the mental capacity required to think that hyphenating your last name somehow solves a problem. Do your children hyphenate their last name, resulting in three surnames? What if you procreate with another hyphenated person? Do your children then have four surnames? Do your children pick and choose?
Regardless, the cohesion of a "family line" is obliterated - and that was the only true goal.
Do your children hyphenate their last name, resulting in three surnames?
My roommate had his last name hyphenated as a "compromise" between his unwed parents. He doesn't use the second name and openly mocks it more than anyone.
Imagine the mental capacity required to think that hyphenating your last name somehow solves a problem. Do your children hyphenate their last name, resulting in three surnames? What if you procreate with another hyphenated person? Do your children then have four surnames? Do your children pick and choose?
Regardless, the cohesion of a "family line" is obliterated - and that was the only true goal.
My roommate had his last name hyphenated as a "compromise" between his unwed parents. He doesn't use the second name and openly mocks it more than anyone.