Posted on 10/16/2005 9:05:59 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
When women moved into the professions it started and then escalated in the 60's. Generally if a woman had already graduated from prof school,,MD, phd, whatever, and was licensed and had a career she kept her name. Some always did.
Actually lots of women complain they cannot find old friends due to the name changes. But professionally, best get married before all the degrees and licenses, otherwise it is a bitch to change and nobody knows you who went to school or trained with you.
Some women, including my Mother who was born in 1908, thought it was better to have a professional name and a married name to use socially.
It isn't entirely a feminist thing. Plus if you marry a man with a hideous name, some don't want to change theirs.
I know professional people do that....professional WOMEN. When they have children....then it does get confusing.
It's not confusing when degree-earning women marry and adopt their husband's name. Women have been doing that for eons.
It's a women's lib "thing," that is, women were encouraged to keep their names and not take on the name of a MALE.
Lol. But, they kept their FATHER'S name. It was all stupid and hypocritical.
I can understand MOVIE actresses, but, really, it is supposed to be about a life-time commitment and children. Having ONE last name WAS/IS best for the children.
I think that we women were encouraged to be selfish, self-absorbed, man-hating bitches by the women's lib movement. We were taught that it was a GOOD thing to abort our unwanted fetuses, as if they were merely that and not our own flesh and blood.
Well, I better quit before I really get warmed up. You get my point already. :o)
Ah, OJ DID DO IT!
A client once took a poke at him, he says, and found out just how quick Horowitz's hands are.
His view of the world is not complicated, but it is not without contradictions. He believes there is good in every person. He believes killing is wrong. That includes the death penalty. Yet if someone were to hurt him or his family, he insists that he would take matters into his own hands.
His childhood friend, Bob Mazzi, has already spoken to the press and said that he was with him "up until the moment" and the rest of the day, Horowitz was with Susan Polk.
Vitale, 52, a former high-tech marketing executive, worked at her husband's law practice, creating and managing databases.
"The two were so intertwined with each other," Golde said. "They were perfect for each other and it was a great marriage. We're all just in total shock."
I find this very sad.
I took my husband's name because it was such a nice name and I had been cursed with one of those "Mc" names even though I was a professional and one of a family of all girls. Way back then my parents didn't want me to shed the family name but I was grateful to do so.
He is the total boss of the family and house and domain {hubby} so I try to lessen his load by paying the bills, signing those pesky contracts, picking out houses and cars I think he would like. I even own his insurance policies so he doesn't have to fret over them. Damn, I wrote his will to keep his mind fresh for important thought and contemplation. It is important to relieve the "big guy" of all the little annoyances of dailly life and financial planning.
I swear, if I dropped dead the man wouldn't know what bank our account is at, if there is a mortgage and how much money he has. He really does enjoy his life of work, hobby and contemplation. I just tend to the little details.
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