In her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has become Hillary Clinton. Campaign press releases and the campaign website both contain the streamlined moniker, though Clinton continues to go by the name Hillary Rodham Clinton in her New York State press releases and in the U.S. Senate. A communications advisor to Clinton ...
When I first came to the USA I was only a visitor and time was running out. We had no set wedding date. Being from Alabama my husband wanted me to “try it out” first, to see how I would like it, knowing how very different this life was going to be compared to living ...
It recently dawned on me that upwards of 80 percent of my married female friends on Facebook include their maiden name as their Facebook name, listed like a middle name before their married surname-even women who have not gone by their maiden names in 40 years. I even did it for a while myself, until ...
It has been tradition in the U.S. and many other countries throughout the world for women to assume their new husband’s name after marriage. Oddly enough, however, this isn’t a legal requirement in most states. It is merely a tradition that has been carried on throughout the years. The tradition continues as children born of ...