Reply #52: We gave my children my wife's last name. People find it weird.

[NNadir]

My last name is very, very common and my wife's last name is beautifully unique.

Believe it or not, I had to sign a release saying that I accepted my children having my wife's last name. (I live in New Jersey, not Texas.) My wife would have had to sign no such release.

It was completely stupid.

That I have such fine sons is mostly my wife's doing, not mine. She did the majority of the hard work. Yet people still act if there was something bizarre in the boys having their mother's name. I think it would have been bizarre the other way around.