[GovernmentShrinker]

A good solution is to give girls their mother's surname and boys their father's. A high school friend of mine ended up doing this, and it seems perfectly natural. And it wouldn't be hard to get used to referring to a family by a pair of names (lots of uper crust British people have been operating with a hyphenated surname for many generations). And besides, hyphenation for kids using both parents' surnames is idiotic, as it's obviously only a one-generation solution (I have yet to encounter or read about ANYBODY crazy enough to continue that concept for a subsequent generation).

[LizardQueen]

That's awfully complicated though - it would mean brothers and sisters would have different names. People can do what they want with them, but that would'nt have been the road I went down, had I had kids.

LQ