{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "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...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184380723423/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> 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</div>\n<p>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\u2019t tenable</p><p>I honestly preferred a \u201cbraided\u201d tradition where girl children take the male parent\u2019s name and vice versa but that does assume a m/f parentage and that girl children stay girls, doesn\u2019t it<br/></p>"}