Why do married women take their husband’s last name?
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Τhis is such an American thing. I live in Greece and a law passed in 1983 that abolished the mandatory of a woman taking her new husband’s name. Since then the women who change their last name are very few. I think this applies to most European countries.
It is not so in Spain.
Spanish people have two surnames. Default order is first the first one of the father and second the first one of the mother (but can be swapped if agreed, so that mother’s is first).
Wife holds her birth name her whole life and pass it to her children, although it’s (by default) lost in the second generation.
Children and family are talky important to us, but not so much as to lose our own name.
Welp, better than taking his Johnson and then chucking it out your car window as you drive by the nearest Starbuck as 35 mph.
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