Would it not make sense if children kept their mothers second name?
Traditionally in marriage a woman will take her husband’s surname and then the child will take the surname both parents hold. However times are changing, now it’s more and more common for couples to ‘double-barrel’ their surnames and for the child to have both, or for both parents to keep their own name (in which case the children often still gets a double-barreled version, or will sometimes take one or the other), or sometimes even for the husband to take the wife’s surname. Also of course children out of wedlock are becoming increasingly more common. In this situation it is still tradition for the child to take the father’s surname and not the mother’s, and from what I observe this seems to be what is most often practiced still to this day. It is really up to the parents to decide and it isn’t my business what other people choose to name their children. However personally it makes sense to me for the child to take the surname of the parent who has custody of them (whether that is the
