I’m not sure how old you are. I can only tell you I’ve had a different name than my children the entire time they’ve been in school (8 years now) and had no issues. In fact as a single mom my children are picked up by a variety of my friends who also don’t have the same name as them and aren’t even listed as related…

I think when both parents are not traveling with the child(ren) whether married or not or sharing the same name as the child or not, you have to have something like a notarized letter stating they know you are traveling out of the country and that you aren’t kidnapping said child. It comes down to custodial…

That’s an issue with paperwork, not surnames, though - so long as you ARE listed as a legal guardian etc, there won’t be any problems.

They'll figure it out. How many parents are remarried, thus mothers having different names than their kids. I'm sure its pretty common.

But your wife is going to be listed as their mother so that’s not going to be a problem. The issue with your GM was not that her name wasn’t the same as yours it was that she wasn’t listed as your guardian. That’s a totally different issue.

This was ABSOLUTELY what the school should have done.

As far as everywhere I’ve lived you always have to provide schools with names of whomever might be picking up your kid. And if it was a different grandmother there wouldn’t be the same surname anyway.

People offer schools as a reason why not taking the husband’s name is a problem all the time, but I don’t buy it. We may not have come to a consensus about last names, but we can all agree that divorce is extremely common now, and with that often comes remarriage.

I have been a parent for over six years now, dealing with hospitals, therapists, preschools, elementary schools, dance studios, girl guides, airlines, etc. a million times. My daughters and I do not have the same last name. It has never been a problem. Not once. Nobody has ever questioned it or even said a thing.…

Millions of pairs of American women are both sisters and have different last names. They seem to still now that they are sisters. funny how that works.

The concept of a wanting a “family name” always feels a little peculiar to me. With few exceptions, aren’t all names family names? What people are really saying when they say they want a family name is “I want you and me and any potential child to have the exact same last name,” an idea that is then negated if and…

It can’t be that new of a trend— a high school friend mine had a combined name (not dissimilar from Huntpalmer) and I never would have guessed unless he told me.

Lol. I think she is great looking too. His comment just gave me the impression that he is a dirty old man. Which probably means we have more in common than I would like. THAT creeped me out.

Jeb Bush, a human being and not an alien convulsing inside a skin sack

If you were born in 1955 (as I was) you’re now straddling both of those 30-year periods at the ripe old age of 60. So why do I still feel 20?

It sounds to me like he pushed her because she wasn’t into him when he thought she was going to be. He sounds like a Nice Guy (tm), especially considering that he frigging assaulted her by grabbing her chest when he thought she was just unconscious.

Let me articulate the subtext and see what you think;

Yea, that is just disgusting. I can say without a single qualm that I fucking hate anybody who actually believes that shit.

Nerds arguing on a nerd site over what obscure means. This is it. We have reached peak nerd.

That’s some next-level trolling right there. I tip my hat to thee, good sir!