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...it is probably the most appropriate regardless of whether or not you are married anyway.
Why? How is a mothers surname less appropriate?
Anthropologically more appropriate. It's usually quite obvious who a child's mother is - bump, birth etc tends to give it away. It's less obvious to society (without having to check birth certs etc. which people dont do on a casual day to day basis) who a child's father is, so labelling the child with the biological father's name makes more sense. There are a multitude of reasons for this.
And csirl, I'd love to know what your 'multitude of reasons' are. If you have a valid argument for children always being given their father's surname rather than the mother's, I am very open to hearing it. Anthropomorphically speaking, my daughter looks nothing like me (unlike my niece). Thank goodness she has my surname!
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