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    Posted: 23-May-2007 at 05:54
Originally posted by heikstheo

  So, how well do hyphenated last names work? Suppose you are born with one last name. And your spouse is born with one last name. And you both take a hyphenated last name at marriage. And so your kids are born with two last names. And they marry spouses with two last names. Hpw many last names are your grandkids born with?  
 
Well, here just the wife takes both names, but only the fathers name OR the mothers name are passed on to the children. Men always have only one name, and children too, (exept when they are noblity), so only married women have double names.
 
And as I understand it, in many Spanish cultured countries, kids get both fathers and mothers name, but only the name of each parents father. So each parent only passes on one name out of two.
 
In the long run in both systems, only the male name stays in the family.

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LOL You might hat it Janus, but there is little choice: double names is what women get by law, unless they take specific action not too, which most dont. I think it is a good thing myself. I see no reason to just give up my own name because I marry, like in Anglo-Saxon countries.


This leads me to a few questions.

1. So a women takes both names, as van is a common beginning to a last name in the Netherlands does that mean a woman is known as say Maria van Something- van Something Else?

2. As I am led to understand the Netherlands allows same sex marriages. Do lesbians get each others last name, and are they in the same order or reverse order (maiden name first- spouses name last)?

3. Is the Dutch attitude towards last names less meaningful since they have only required last names for just the past two hundred years?
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1. yes
2. I would not know actually... good question! I suppose they can choose, but I think in same sex marriage, most partners just keep their own. (especially male-male marriages, else it would get confusing...Wink)
3. Ehm. Not sure what you mean...  Last names are pretty important in daily life...
Official marriage was introduced at the same time as official last names. By the French under Napoleon. So I guess the last name in marriage rule was thought up at the same time.

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