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  by Danielle Santacroce

  Created on: May 04, 2010   Last Updated: May 05, 2010

  We scroll our crushes' names on our notebooks growing up; we practice our signature with different last

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  by Katherine Born

  Created on: July 26, 2009

  Let's state our assumptions: We are speaking of married women in a North American setting where traditionally

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  by Barbara Stanley

  Created on: May 18, 2009   Last Updated: May 19, 2009

  For most women, the custom of taking their husband's last name on their wedding day is something they

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  by Robin Landry

  Created on: September 16, 2009   Last Updated: September 17, 2009

  
  

  When I married the first time at age twenty-four, I briefly experimented with using my maiden name

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  by Warren

  Created on: August 09, 2008

  Married women should switch to their husband's surname.This seems appropriate as they are marrying into

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  by Ernest Capraro

  Created on: July 06, 2008

  "We come together today to unite in marriage..." or some variation of these words are the standard prologue

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  by Antuan Melvin

  Created on: July 01, 2009   Last Updated: July 03, 2009

  According to the new college edition dictionary, the term Marriages defined as "The legal union of a

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  by Elizabeth Curtis

  Created on: July 23, 2008   Last Updated: August 01, 2008

  Choosing whether to keep your family's name, a name that has identified you during your childhood and

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  by Jenny Tolley

  Created on: August 26, 2009

  When I married my husband, I chose to change my last name to his. I made that decision because I knew

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  by Renee Morgan

  Created on: March 03, 2009   Last Updated: March 04, 2009

  Yes, a married woman should switch to her husband's last name. I think that the woman should switch

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  by Emese Tuza

  Created on: February 16, 2009   Last Updated: February 18, 2009

  I am a newlywed, my husband and I just got married last September. The first reality check came when

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  by Kate Johns

  Created on: April 13, 2008

  Married women should switch to their spouse's last name because it is a time-honored tradition like

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  by Wendy Hepton

  Created on: July 02, 2008   Last Updated: October 23, 2011

  There are those who don't switch their last name, but I seriously have to wonder about their motives.

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  by Ronald Holmes

  Created on: August 10, 2008

  The question of whether or not a woman should keep her maiden name is an important question. There are

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  by A.E.McGrath

  Created on: September 15, 2008   Last Updated: April 01, 2010

  The decision to keep your name or switch to your husband's depends on individual preference and mutual

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  by Meg Jack

  Created on: April 21, 2008   Last Updated: March 09, 2011

  Does it honestly make sense to keep your last name when married? I'm getting married in a year and I

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  by D. Warnaar

  Created on: February 18, 2008   Last Updated: September 20, 2009

  So you want to share you're life with him, but you're not willing to share his name? That simply does

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  by Carolyn Tytler

  Created on: November 20, 2007

  When two people fall in love, they spend as much time together as possible. When they are apart, each

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  by Heidi Hess Saxton

  Created on: November 10, 2007

  To be honest, I thought a long time before changing my name. In my family, women replace their middle

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  by Jonte Rhodes

  Created on: October 06, 2007

  In my opinion a woman should generally take her husbands name unless she has a good reason for not doing