By taking their wives' last names.There's a slow-growing trend for men to take their spouses' last names.
Douglas County Clerk Tom Cavanaugh said "Men who think about it are quickly discouraged either by the process or the public reaction."
That reaction is the product of our roots as a patriarchal society and several hundred years of history, said Cleveland Evans, a member of the American Name Society and a psychology professor at Bellevue University.
No local, state or national agency records the instances, but anecdotal evidence nationwide indicates it's more common, said Mark Rosenbaum, a lawyer and University of Michigan professor of law.
Me thinks this has little to do with romance or being submissive, instead it's just men taking a female's name that's shorter and easier to spell than your own. Shit. I know that's the reason I wanna get married. My last name's kinda weird. Explains a lot, I'm sure.
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