Wow, you have a really strong opinion about this issue. All I can say is I don’t agree with you across the board, but I’m sorry if this has caused some problems in your own life. Most of the Juniors I know don’t seem to have any sort of issues with their fathers based on their having been given the family name. Perhaps you should talk it out with someone.
Well, indeed I do have a strong opinion on the issue. Naming someone after yourself strikes me as the action of someone quite “struck upon” himself and I’ve never been an admirer of those types of people. It is further evidence of men’s being far more conceited than women. Have you ever heard of a woman naming one of her daughters the same name as herself? It may happen but I would bet that it is very, very rare.
And the matter has never been a problem for me (aside from those occasions when I had to explain that I wanted to speak to Joe Smith Jr., not Joe Smith Sr., about his delinquent bill). Thankfully, I was never a Jr. If I had been, at age 21, you would have found me in the courthouse petitioning the court to have my name changed to something, say, more “individualistic”.
And no, ma’am, I feel no need to “talk it out with someone.” It was never a “family issue” with me because I never had children. I never wanted children. Those are other people’s problems.
I am 70 years of age, and my opinions are quite well-formed and I see no need to modify them at this point.