My wife doesn’t share my last name, and we’ve navigated the child-name issue simply enough: we alternated child last names. Here’s our system:
+ The first child gets the last name of the same-sex parent and the first name is chosen by the opposite-sex parent. In our case, our first child was a son, so he got my last…

Several years ago, I flew to London for a friend’s wedding, and botched getting back to Heathrow on time to board my Air Canada flight back to the states. I then spent 24 hours in Heathrow, money supplies dwindling, unable on standby to get onto consistently packed flights to AC’s hub in Toronto. Finally, I said to…