Is it ok that women have to change their names when they become parents?

[TheSpokenNerd]

An angry thread in chat...or maybe AIBU just kicked off when a woman came on to discuss her choice of teaching her 15 month old to call her by name and not "mummy"

I know...thread about a thread...but need to hear your opinions from a Feminist pov

Why do you think some people get so angry about a woman not wanting the title?

Oh and yes don't see this as a feminist issue at all TBH.

look at the words for mum and dad around the world - all very similar!

1. They don't have to
2. It's not just women

How interesting Sardine, I was just about to look that up myself. At university I studied historical linguistics and we looked at the terms for family members in different Indo-European languages - it's a really good way of tracing language change through the centuries.

When I was about eleven I decided it was ridiculous for my parents to sign cards/letters to me as Mummy and Daddy rather than their given names and instructed them to change over (which they obediently did). I guess this must have been when I first started thinking of them as individuals rather than solely in relation to me.

China. Mama Baba