Why don't more men take their wife's surname when they marry?

Re:Why don't more men take their wife's surname when they ma... by Markoff on Sunday July 29, 2018 @12:51PM (#17639027)

or you know both can keep their family name without any change, sounds like best solution to me, why change anyone's name because of relationship document?

i didn't even had to think about it since i have western name, my wife has Chinese, so either combination would look extremely strange at least for us (for mixed children i find it acceptable to see western given name with Chinese foreign name, but for someone not mixed it's odd)

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Re:Why don't more men take their wife's surname when they ma... by zamadatix on Sunday July 29, 2018 @01:02PM (#17639078)

There is a convenience in having the same last name but I agree, no reason to always change names if one doesn't want to.

I could see this resulting in similar debate over how the children get named though.

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Re:Why don't more men take their wife's surname when they ma... by Markoff on Thursday August 02, 2018 @05:29AM (#17670237)

oh well that would be whole other post how we were choosing international name with same transcription in English and most European countries (including our potential destinations for settling), how it could not contain R because wife it's Chinese (who unlike Japanese can't really pronounce it) and didn't want extremely common name like quarter of children in class (i had name like that and it's PITA and don't understand people who don't check statistics and just choose one of the top 10 names) and how the length should balance with my family name and other factors i don't remember now

there really should be some training for people how to choose proper name and they should pass some basic test so their choice would be accepted because their child will be living with such name, not careless parents

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