Both, that’s what me and my wife did. It was recently allowed here, but it has been common in Spanish speaking countries for example.
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swordgeek@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Two short answers: Tradition and simplicity.
If you have different names, which one do the kids get? Also, it’s sometimes challenging to fill in school forms when your kid has a different last name than you.
kryptonidas@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Exactly, this is a strange concept to get hung up on. In China and North and South Korea, a woman in a stereotypical heterosexual marriage keeps her name and the children get the father’s name.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, but in South Korea they also give you pickles witch your pizza!
What does that have to do with this situation? Nothing. I’m just bored, and think it’s a weird thing they do…
How’s your day going?
NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oooh, a good dill pickle slice on a pizza sounds good. So do green olives… I have to try these now!
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I don’t really like both as a compromise.
What if your children did the same? And their children too?
After a while you’d have 30+ names in your last name.
Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They get one per parent, not all of the previous ones. The child of Juan Lopez Sánchez and Ana Heredia Marín would be called Firstname Lopez Heredia. If this child had a child with Luisa Ribera Zapatero the kid would be Firstname Lopez Ribera.
By default the fathers last name goes first, but they can decide to swap the last names to put the mother’s first.
kryptonidas@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
When they get married and or get children they can pick only one to continue. So that the names don’t get super long indeed.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My mother took my father’s surname and kept her maiden name as a second middle name, then they named their children the same way. That ended up being the smoothest way to handle it for official documents.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
This it the real answer. It’s usually just easier to do it because it’s the expected situation.