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There are several issues in real life if you live in a society where it is the norm. The very least when you have kids and their teachers or any official you e

by bipson 6y ago

There are several issues in real life if you live in a society where it is the norm. The very least when you have kids and their teachers or any official you encounter assume that the parents have the same name as the kids. (This can't be your kid!) We know a couple where she had hyphenated surnames. Almost always confused the officials, colleagues and friends when they lived in Switzerland. We decided against my wife not changing her name, since it was not worth the troubles.

M277 6y ago
Oh, yes, I understand now. The original post was talking about changing surnames in general so I thought that it was criticising the norm, and my reply was in similar fashion - "why does the norm exist?" Should have clarified, sorry. It [not changing names] really wouldn't work out well if it wasn't the norm in place as you say, there are plenty of issues that could happen.