sooner or later the new practice of "child of John X and Mary Y is named Jane X-Y" is going to get combined with the WASP...
Anonymous asked: sooner or later the new practice of "child of John X and Mary Y is named Jane X-Y" is going to get combined with the WASP tradition of giving your kid an ancestor's last name as a first name, and we'll get kids with names like Zhang-Lowell T. Saltonstall
I grew up when the (even half-)generation before me tried hyphenating their names but then they divorced or their hyphenated kids married each other and that wasn’t tenable
I honestly preferred a “braided” tradition where girl children take the male parent’s name and vice versa but that does assume a m/f parentage and that girl children stay girls, doesn’t it