My boyfriend and I are unmarried, having a child, and both want to give it our last name. We've "agreed" to hyphenate it, but both out names are really hard to say AND spell, so I'm having second thoughts. His is french and mine is polish. We don't know if it's a boy or girl yet, but this is how I feel about it:
His last name is difficult, but it's very common, french canadian, and we live right near the canadian border. Open the phonebook and there's a million of them. My family, on the other hand, emmigrated here a few generations ago, and my generation is all women.
if we have a daughter, I don't care if she has my last name or not, because chances are good it will never get passed on. If we have a son, I really want him to have my family's last name becuase otherwise I'm afraid it's going to die out in this country, and I love and am proud of my family. But if our son has my last name, then his children probably will too, and our heritage will be carried on.
2006-10-01
01:16:50
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Emily O
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