Can girls carry on the family lineage?
A girl can indeed carry on her family name, but she won’t carry the Y DNA that carries on the family line. Essentially if a man has no sons that is the end of his particular family line; unless he has brothers, which I’m assuming is not the case here.
Does the male carry the bloodline?
If the son goes up to be the only one to have biological children, then he carries the bloodline. It works the same way for the girl. If both of them have biological children, then they both carry on the bloodline.
Should you name your child after your wider family?
That both parents are happy with the choice is essential; she says, but sometimes it is the wider family who are distinctly unchuffed. “If there is hostility,” says Dyson, “the most important thing is to keep it away from the children and don’t make their name a battleground. It is their identity, their sense of self.”
Should you give your child the mother’s last name?
This underlines a controversial point that Dyson makes, that “giving the child the mother’s surname may make sense because while not wishing to denigrate the importance of the father, statistically it is the relationship with the mother that is most likely to last.”
Why are our children’s names changing?
Child and family psychotherapist Nicola Dyson says it is becoming another area to be navigated – alongside who empties the bins or who “marinates” their career. “Families are changing,” she says. “They are much more fluid than they were in the 50s, say. So it’s hardly surprising that our children’s names are changing too.”
How are surnames passed on in the Netherlands?
In the Netherlands, the woman’s name is used before a man claims fatherhood. Both the father and mothers’ surnames are passed on in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, but the father’s name is more often used day-to-day.