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Can’t Take Your Husband’s Name in Matriarchyland

Dateline: Quebec, Canada
By: Marianne White
From: Canada.com
Via: The Honor Network

Can’t Take Your Husband’s Name in Matriarchyland
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Break out the hyphens for the kids are going to have long names:

Quote:

Caroline Parent assumed she would take her husband's surname after their wedding. But the Ontario-born newlywed, who lives in Quebec, was shocked to learn that a 1981 provincial law forbids it.

Now, the Gatineau woman has written to Premier Jean Charest to complain about this aspect of Quebec's distinctiveness.
"It's unbelievable and totally unfair. Why can't I take my husband's name if I want to, like anywhere else in the country?" asked Parent in a phone interview Wednesday.

For more of click:

http://www.canada.com/topics/news...4b92-8b92-3a26ae24b377&k=5969

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