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Favoured Hyphenation: Name and Husband

favoured hyphenation: But when their daughter, now two, arrived they faced a dilemma — what last name will she get Gladstone and Semchuk were both ruled out and neither favoured hyphenation, according to Metro News. The pair decided to blend both to create Semstone. And her husband, Brody, 30, didn't want her to give up that recognition just to take on his last name, Semchuk. Now the family has three different last names. But dig deeper and a status quo and stigma still persist: In Canada, eight in 10 women take their husband last name, either at marriage or when kids are born, according to a 2016 survey commissioned by I Am A Mrs, a company that helps women change their surnames. She part of a small movement of families bucking the trend of adopting the husband last name in favour of gender-equal alternatives, because in this post-feminism era why should the man surname be the default In today modern family world, it more accepted than ever that a woman might have a different last name than her husband, says Donna Lillian, a linguist scholar at the North Carolina-based Appalachian State University and president of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.