Moon Shyne wrote:
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Dear Divorced,

I'm mom of three. Kids don't get the adult inference of surnames. Their
name is their name. It wouldn't occur to a kid that a name "belongs" to
Dad, or that they could make a statement about rejecting someone by
dumping a surname. That's adult logic, not kid logic.

Not true. My daughter, when in the 7th grade, chose to use my family name
as her last name in school - and she was absolutely making a statement about
rejecting the father who disappeared from her life nearly 5 years ago.


Maybe as she got older she started sounding a lot like her mother and
he faded away in disgust.