On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 1:15:05 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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> It tradition because the woman loves the man and wants to share his name.
> Depending on religion and country of residence you would also become his
> property.
>
> Found this:
> the practice of a woman taking her husband's last name is a vestige of a
> law that dates back to the 11th century. Sometime after the Norman
> Conquest, the Normans introduced the idea of coverture to the English,
> and the seeds of a long-standing tradition were planted.
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> Equality, Property, and Marriage. Most American treated married women
> according to the concept of coverture, a concept inherited from English
> common law. Under the doctrine of coverture, a woman was legally
> considered the chattel of her husband, his possession.
>
Many men today, and I mean men under the age of 40 as well as businesses
and some countries still believe a woman is a man's property.