> I took my husband's last name when I got
> married. I wanted to, and what exactly is the
> point of feminism if you don't get to make the
> choices you wish? His last name is
> interesting, and as a teacher, I knew that it
> would be easier when we (hopefully) had
> children for people to track me down.

My mom kept her maiden name and stuck my dad's last name after it (no hyphen), so now her name is in this format: First Middle Maiden Married. They're divorced now, but she kept her name the way it is anyway because she'd had it that way longer than she hadn't.

I didn't learn that adding the husband's last name to the end of your name, giving you four names, was not standard practice until I was in about fourth grade, and it still seems weird to me to do otherwise.

-Eric "Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Hutz McClure" Sleator
Mon 12 Nov A.D. 2001