my father thinks because i am a girl and the only child that his bloodline is lost is this true?

Answer 1

no, the bloodline is never lost......he is thinking about the last
name. The suggestions on here are great.
Talk with you Dad and reassure him.

Answer 2

First of all, Daddys are right. Having said that, I think of the Bible where an enemy king sought to wipe out the Davidic royalty by killing all the boys in front of their father then blinding the king and keeping him celebit under house arrest in Babylon till his death. Oops, Moses ruled the inheritance can go through the girls. Teah Tephi, known in KJV as The Twig Tender is transported with her sister by Ollam Folla, their maternal grandfather, and Bruck, known biblically as the Prophet Jeremiah and Baruch to Portugal leaving one girl there but pressing on to the isles afar off, England, where Teah marries the distant cousin of the scarlet thread to introduce and preserve King David's bloodline into Zarah's ancient English/Israelite royalty. The Book Of Tephi is one of if not the oldest books in English, written by her and a couple others in ancient English in Jeremy's time and available by an endowed trust fund warehouse to this day, ..Destiny Publishers, by attorney H Rand. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kjv/bool.html

Answer 3

That's absolutely ridiculous. First of all, you may have children. Make a wise decision and hyphenate that child's name to show that your family includes everyone. You and your future spouse should hyphenate as well, because no one has to lose familial identity to become a family. True families are about expansion, not either/or. Families used to be reckoned through the women, anyway...because it was hard to prove who a child's father was.

Second, even if you don't have biological children family is about the stories and the history, not the "blood". The history of "us" is what makes us continue. My stepchildren know stories of my parents, my grandparents, my aunts and my uncles. We live on through the impact we make, not the bodily fluids we spread.

Answer 4

It depends on the outlook of your family and society you live in in general. If your background is Patriarchal, or patrilocal, the blood line is considered to be carried by the males, the reverse is true in Matrilocal societies.
Ethnologists generally consider the U.S. to be bilocal. Still, as an American of Eastern European decent, I side with the patrilocal view. It's basically semantics and perception. If your dad believes this, he is correct.

Answer 5

No, you still have half his genetics, which you will pass on to any kids you have. If you get married and change your name, then the family name might not pass on anymore, but the genetics, personality, and your culture/teachings will pass on, which is more important than a stupid name, I think.

If you want, now many people keep hyphenated last names, so you can still keep the name if you want. For example: Emily Johnson-Smith.

Answer 6

No. That's not true. He probably means the family name ends. If this is a serious concern and you care to address it (and your future husband is accommodating), you might add a hyphenated surname to your child's last name.

Good Luck.

Answer 7

No, and you can find ways to keep the name, if it means that much to him. You can use it as a middle name, hyphenated, any number of ways. See answer number 1.

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Answer 8

no. only the last name is lost. i have to say, i think your dad was an *ss for saying this to you.