Men and Women

[theLeadmonger]

Here I am, slaving away over Matthew One. Men beget. Beget means fathered, it doesn't mean gave birth unto. Women are of a man, (the mothers are noted in the genealogical record in case of multiple marriages or affairs being had by the man. Your name is always your father's name, for either a woman or a man, in the case of a marriage, the relationship is strictly legal and doesn't include a name from the mother's side of the family. If the two get divorced she goes back to her father's name, which is her rightful name, and he gets to keep the fact that her children if begat by him legally have his name by blood (they aren't related to her father, just begat of her). It's complicated. Family law dictates that the name itself (of the family, meaning the surname from sir) passes one generation at a a time, and only one generation at a time, from the fathers to both the sons and daughters. His last name by marriage isn't legally hers for blood lineage, she still has her father's last name for birth record accounting. The children are not begat by her and can't use her father's last name. The children have to keep the father's name, including the daughters, who carry the legal relationship to the blood name into their marriages, if any.