Do you think women are obliged to take the spouse surname when they got married?

Here in our country , when women marries , they use the surname of their husbands. I like it that way, because for me i am proud to use my husband's name. It shows that i am married for those who knows my maiden name.

I guess most Christian countries follows this tradition if we can call it such or maybe an obligation to the husband. A sign of respect or maybe to let the world that you are already committed. I don't know when this started, what I know of is, it was pass to us by our forefathers and was maintained till the present time.

I took my husbands surname. To me its a sign the we are a family and commited, it shows we are married and it means our children have the same surname as both of us, which to me proves to be a stronger connection. I dont know why other people do it, tradtion maybe?

When my husband and I got married eight years ago, I did take his last name. The reason that I thought that this was important was because of the fact that I feel that sharing a last name with your spouse is something that is a sign of being a family. In addition to that, I also believe that if you are going to have children, it is important to share the same last name so that the children will be less confused as they are growing up. In fact, my husband's last name is different from his parent's last name and though it wasn't something that confused him when he was little as they used his father's last name until he was sixteen years old, it is something that really confuses my children.

Nowdays in China, women don't have to use their husbands' lastnames after getting married. And they usually don't do that. However, they'll be addressed Mrs ( their husbands' lastnames) in public. As for me, I like my lastname so much. There's no way for me to change it even I marry someone in future.

It is very common for married women to do that. It is the tradition and it is the law. When you get married as a woman, your surname becomes your middle name. Have a good day.

It is necessary for the wife to adopt her husband surname after married, it is a tradition in many cultures, usually it meant that now the woman is part of that man's family and she can count on him to provide and as a sole bread winner in the family. In a more advance culture and modern society where women are dominate or have greater say with personal matter, then she is not required to adopt her husband surname at all, it is strictly her choice to adopt it without the baggage of ancient traditon/ custom compel her to adopt husband name. It is more like having a sense of belonging to the same family on the male side and more readily acceptance by his family members by doing that.

In my country,women have to use the surname of their husband when they got married. But in Korea, it's not like that. Women use the surname that they have but their children use the surname of their father. Maybe it's because of tradition.

In some country, they don't use the last name of their hubby to be; others use the last name of their father, but they add letter "a" at the end of the surname if it is a girl. It is a matter of their practice in different countries.