Women are challenging the law that prevents them giving their kids both family names without father’s consentWhen 43-year-old Rebecca Lee took her birth mother’s Korean surname, it was a revelation. “I was adopted and got a Dutch name but I never felt completely Dutch,” she says. “When, a few years ago, I first went to Korea, things fell into place. You don’t just go ‘one, two, three’ and change your name, but now I feel more whole.”The entrepreneur from Groningen split from her husband and wants to give her five-year-old daughter “Lee” as part of a double-barrelled surname – but she cannot, under a Dutch law that some women, a leftwing MP and legal experts believe is unfair. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/22/she-should-have-a-bit-of-me-the-dutch-mothers-fighting-for-their-children-to-carry-their-surname
Author : Senay Boztas in Amsterdam
Publish date : 2024-12-22 05:00:37
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‘She should have a bit of me’: the Dutch mothers fighting for their children to carry their surname
