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The share of women opting to change their name has declined in recent decades, but only gradually: A 2015 Google Consumer Survey conducted by The New York Times found that just 22 percent of women ...
Wives usually append the family name of their spouse to their legal name, although there is a recent trend of women keeping their maiden names. [58] Following Portuguese naming customs , a person's name consists of a given name (simple or composite) followed by two family names (surnames), the mother's and the father's.
A 2015 The New York Times study found that about 30 percent of married women keep their maiden names or add their husband’s name to their own—a big uptick since the 1980s and the 1970s when ...
Married women were responsible for their own actions in criminal presentments and defamation, but their husbands represented them in litigation for abduction and in interpersonal pleas. [ 9 ] The extent of coverture in medieval England has also been qualified by the existence of femme sole customs that existed in some medieval English towns.
Rephrasing to, "Traditionally in the Anglophone West, only women do so, but occasionally men change their last name after marriage as well." 199.184.238.194 23:42, 29 August 2008 (UTC) The external source (More men taking wives' last names) says "more", of which "growing" is a synonym. We don't need the external source to state numbers with ...
Women changing their last name when they get married is a strong tradition — but with a difficult past, experts say. New data shows where the trends are and where they may be headed.
In 1982 the right to use patronyms (and matronyms) was partially restored; a person (or the parents of a child) had to apply and pay a fee. From 1 July 2017 parents in Sweden are free to give their children patronyms/matronyms at birth instead of inherited family names, and any person can change their last name to a matronymic or patronymic. [26]
Women die in child birth again and again in Grimms' tales — in "Snow White," "Cinderella," and "Rapunzel" — having served their societal duties by producing a beautiful daughter to replace her. Those fair princesses aren't exempt from violence, as many are banished to towers, trees and forests, where they perform domestic duties until saved ...