Sustainability

The world is making great improvements when is comes to sustainability in recent years but I feel like we are taking steps backwards when it comes to the family names.

They had it alright in the early days with simple last names like King, Vaughan and Jones. Then names like Richardson and Johnson appeared. Dosen't work very well if somewhere down the line, god forbid, there's a daughter now does it?

And it seems to me that in the past couple decades, now that society is breaking with tradition that there are hyphens showing up everywhere. Here's another perfect example of people being totally unconcerned with the future. Sure I get it, you both like your last names and don't want to trade in. But hyphenated names are something that should not be passed on the the next generations. What happens if a Cane-Phyllis and a Crosby-Scissorhands get married? That's the end of it right there unless they want to spend the rest of there lives dealing with the repercussions. For on thing, no one would add them on Facebook. "yeah, just look me up, my last name's Cane-Phyllis-Crosby-Scissorhands". Erin Brockovich couldn't even remember that name. Secondly, companies wanting to avoid excess paper work would definitely not hire such an unfortunately named person.

All I ask is that when deciding on last names for their children that parents ask for an outside opinion from a friend who's not afriad to give it to them straight; because in this sort of situation the sustainability of a name must be considered.