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Or do you think that children should take both their other as well as their father's last name, or if actually they are being raised by both parents? I understand in cases where there may be only one parent involved, completely get it. But if a child is raised by two parents, should the child take up both parents name? Yeah. Let me know your thoughts
Dwarak Varadarajan
@Dwarak_V · 1:34
Yeah. It's a good question. So as it is concerned in India, so in India, you would have known that we follow many cultures around here and in different States in India, they follow different traditions and different cultures around here. So most of the Indian people in the North India, they would have followed their family name. The family name of them will follow in a hierarchy basis, like Gupta or Bannerjee
Ivan Filpo
@ivanf · 2:22
And growing up the way I did, I felt that this meant that women would lose a little part of their identity. This made me appreciate even more what most Spanish speaking countries do. They basically allow children to also honor their mothers. In the Dominican Republic, women often add off once they marry to their last name, not replace an existing name with another
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
And that's really important to us, because although we live in a patriarchy, if we're both honest with ourselves, I'm the one who wears, like, the pants in the family, metaphorically speaking. And so it was really important for us to not give in to that, because if we look at our roles in our relationship and in our family, I take on a lot more of the stereotypical male role
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