Comments on: Will Uruguay Gay Marriage Law Change the Rules on Baby Names in Latin America?

By: Stanley James

Stanley James — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:59:00 +0000

my daugher never changed her last name, and her daughter has a hyphenated last name – mother first, then Dad who happens to be Asian by birth.

By: Stanley James

Stanley James — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:55:00 +0000

I’m sure that there is a good will solution to the situation – let the couple decide which name comes firts

But there is another benefit to doing the marriage bill for which will allow str8 couples to choose the name order

Note that the fathers name now comes first. Why – because it places the father over the mother in order of respect etc. the history of htis goes way back to when women were property.

And the catholic church still believes in this idea – thats why it doesnt allow women as religious leaders, who are seen as the channel to God / Heaven

Not only does the church discriminate against gay people but it does the same re women. Nuns and Sisters are basically cheap labor for the churh,. Its segregation and less then equal religious citizenship.

By: Israel Navas Duran

Israel Navas Duran — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:36:00 +0000

If I’m not wrong in Brazil (and Portugal) is the other way around, which turns out to be the ancestral way of both. I’m all for this other system of assigning surnames

“both men and women should keep their premarital surnames for life, with sons taking their fathers’ surnames and daughters their mothers’.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant#Biography

that in addition makes more sense from a genetic point of view since biological mothers transmit their mitochondrial DNA to their daughters (and their sons), and the daughters of their daughters (but not to the offspring of their sons), and so on along their matrilineal descendance, whereas biological fathers transmit their Y chromosome to their sons (but not their daughters), the sons of their sons and so on through the patrilineal descendants.

Such system would be very useful to discover distant relatives, what could help evaluate the genetic predisposition to certain diseases or conditions, identify the alleles that contribute the most to those predispositions, etc.

By: hyhybt

hyhybt — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:48:00 +0000

Thanks. I suspected it would be something like that, but better to ask than to assume.

By: William Troop

William Troop — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Good question! It’s usually restricted to the first last name listed by the father, followed by the first last name listed by the mother. Although in some cases, people try to preserve a cherished maternal last name by a hyphenating it onto a paternal name.

By: hyhybt

hyhybt — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:02:00 +0000

I guess this is as good a place to ask as any… how does this work, multigenerationally? What I mean is, if every generation, the baby gets the last name of both its father and its mother, how do you not wind up with a four-word last name the next generation, and then eight, etc.?