On 8/30/2018 11:19 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 8/30/2018 8:34 AM, Cheri wrote:
>
>>> We don't have to change our name if we don't want to. It's our choice.
>>
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>> But...Sheldon wants to "pass a law that girls can't change their
>> name," talk about trying to control everything.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> Choice is good.* Friend kept her married name after divorce because it
> was easier in life to have a short easy to spell/pronounce than a long
> Polish one that very few people can figure out.
>
> I also have know a couple of young girls that would dreamily practice
> writing their first name with future husband's surname
>
> https://seattlebridemag.com/expert-w...-married-names
>
> Still, the matter of a wife taking a husband’s surname didn’t surface in
> English common law until the ninth century, when lawmakers began to
> consider the legalities surrounding personhood, families, and marriage.
> Thusly (as they would say), the doctrine of coverture emerged – and
> women were thereafter considered “one” with their husbands and therefore
> required to assume the husband’s surname as their own.
>
> Under the concept of coverture, which literally means “covered by,”
> women had no independent legal identity apart from their spouse.
> Actually, this “coverage” began upon the birth of a female baby – who
> was given her father’s surname – and could only change upon the marriage
> of that female, at which point her name was automatically changed to
> that of her new husband.

And the women had to wear corsets, too. Wasn't life grand back in the
old days? Off with her head! LOL

Jill