Question

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Why are babies so often given names "in honour" of the father (whether it's a first or middle name), and almost never the mother, who, let's face it, usually does most of the work of parenting?

I find this bizarre and unfortunate. 



Especially since two people I've known who have named their children "in honour of" the father ended up being single moms with dads who pretty much walked out on them - I know that's not always predictable, but it's ironic nonetheless.

Comments

[myfriendjenny.livejournal.com]

I hadn't really noticed that, not in my family anyway. But I could see it being true.

I think in my family there can be too much of an effort to work in family names. I remember one of my cousins was going to be Mary Jean Ruth Green if he had been a girl. Mary, Jean, and Ruth all being family names.

My son has my husband's name as him middle name, but if he had been a girl it would have been either my name in there, or maybe my mom.